Caracas Coupster Seeks Refuge in El Salvador

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AFP via Times of India - May 28, 2002
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=11208712


Retired admiral seeks asylum in El Salvador

CARACAS, may 28 (AFP)--Retired Venezuelan rear admiral Carlos Molina
Tamayo, who took part in last month's coup attempt against President
Hugo Chavez, entered a Salvadoran diplomatic residence here and
requested political asylum in that country, his lawyer said on
Monday.

"By all appearances, he was going to be deprived of his liberty,"
said Molina's lawyer, Carlos Bastidas. Molina entered the residence
of the Salvadoran business attache.

The report came after Chavez announced he would grant businessman
Pedro Carmona, the presumed leader of the failed two-day coup, free
passage to Colombia, whose authorities had offered him political
asylum. Five military leaders plus Carmona were placed under house
arrest awaiting trial on charges of rebellion.

 
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