Venezuelan dissidents seek asylum (Wanted for embassy bombings in VZ)

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Charged in Venezuela and wanted by Interpol, these two *dissidents* are in Miami, US terrorist center, where known terrorists walk the streets free. And the corporate press refers to these guys as *dissidents*. LOL See background article below.

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Two dissident Venezuelan military officers sought in connection with embassy bombings in their home country appeared before a Miami immigration judge Tuesday in a move to gain political asylum.

Accompanied for the first time by an attorney, José Antonio Colina Pulido and Germán Varela made a brief appearance before Judge Neale Foster in immigration court during a preliminary hearing.

"Their asylum claim is based on the fact that they fear persecution upon their return by the Venezuelan government," said Leopoldo Ochoa, a Coral Gables attorney who represents the former officers. He said the two men have until Feb. 3 to file an asylum claim.

Colina and Varela arrived at Miami International Airport on Dec. 12 on a flight from Colombia. They were taken into custody and remain at Krome detention center in southwest Miami-Dade County, Ochoa said.

<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pasylum21jan21,0,6164201.story?coll=sfla-news-palm>

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Venezuela Asks Interpol to Help Capture Terror Suspects Seeking Asylum in the US

Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 30 (Venezuelanalysis.com).- Venezuelan police authorities have requested the cooperation of Interpol in the United States for the capture of fugitive anti-government military rebels German Rodolfo Varela and Jose Antonio Colina.

The rebels have been charged in connection with the terrorist attacks to the Embassy of Spain and the Consulate of Colombia in Caracas, on February 26, 2003.

Both Varela and Colina are part of a group of rebel military officers who openly oppose the government of President Hugo Chavez, and who set up a protest camp at the Francia Square in the affluent eastern Caracas neighborhood of Altamira, to give anti-government speeches and make calls to overthrow the President.

According to a report by the El Nuevo Herald of Miami, the two officers managed to elude Venezuelan police authorities and escaped to Colombia. Later, on December 19th, they arrived in the US in a flight coming from Bogota, Colombia, and requested political asylum in Miami. They remain under the custody of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1147