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Bacchus4.0

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Tue May 15, 2012, 09:35 AM May 2012

Maduro: The US only choice is handing over Aponte Aponte

http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/120514/maduro-the-us-only-choice-is-handing-over-aponte-aponte

Venezuela's Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolás Maduro labeled Eladio Aponte Aponte, ex magistrate of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ), as a "criminal" and strongly recommended the US government to deport him to Venezuela.

"Aponte is requested under a red alert of Interpol as a result of his direct links to drug-trafficking mafias and, further, because in Venezuela there is a court proceeding related to an inquest prior to his remarks. The United States has one possibility only: handing him over; otherwise, it will be a direct accomplice of these mafias," he emphasized.

Maduro's comments came before his meeting with his Ecuadorian counterpart Ricardo Patiño, where they planned to discuss, among others, the role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and Venezuela's potential pullout.


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what do you think the likelyhood that the US hands over Aponte to Venezuela?
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Maduro: The US only choice is handing over Aponte Aponte (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 May 2012 OP
"otherwise, it will be a direct accomplice of these mafias" ChangoLoa May 2012 #1

ChangoLoa

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1. "otherwise, it will be a direct accomplice of these mafias"
Tue May 15, 2012, 09:48 AM
May 2012

Does he mean a direct accomplice of the Venezuelan party-govt/ military command drug trafficking mafias?

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