A commission of the Service Bolivariano de Inteligencia (Sebin) - old Disip- appeared east Friday in house of the president of Globovisión, Guillermo Zuloaga, with tickets of imprisonment against its person and its son Guillermo Zuloaga Siso, dictated by a Court of Control of the metropolitan area. More early, a well-known journalist of the state Aragua, Francisco “Pancho” Perez, was condemned yesterday to three years and nine months of professional and political incapacitation. Both facts constitute a new insult to the media in the country and radicalize the governmental position against the critic and to the exercise of the freedom of expression.

Caracas. - The political Police appeared east Friday with an arrest order in a property of Guillermo Zuloaga, president of the channel of the Globovisión news, that it has adopted a hard line against president Hugo Chavez, their lawyers confirmed.

The agents of the Service Bolivariano de National Inteligencia (Sebin) carried “orders of arrest” against the televising executive and his son Guillermo Zuloaga Siso, dictated by a court, the crimes of “generic usury” and “agavillamiento”, that the contest of several people implies to commit a crime.

The measurement is related to a pending investigation by the presumed crime of “irregular storage” of 24 vehicles, confirmed the general prosecutor Luisa later Grouse.

Zuloaga was not in its house Friday at night, indicated defense counsel Rep it Jaimes. The whereabouts of Zuloaga are not known.

The action was realised one week after Chávez, in a televised speech, complained that in Venezuela it exists a “structural weakness in the system of the State” and put like example some of the judicial processes that still has Zuloaga slope.

“That way, to that gentleman (Zuloaga) bojote (a great number) of cars was taken hold to him in its house and that is a crime, monopolizing. And he walks loose and it has a television channel”, lamented Chávez.

“You realize? It has a television channel and that way they say what it gives the desire them. And it continues being that channel the point of the spear of the bourgeoisie, we are going to see who holds more”, added.

Zuloaga is under provisional freedom in the hope of judgment by several causes, including two penal investigations by the storage of vehicles of double traction in one of its properties and to collect dissected animal. These two causes had six months paralyzed, indicated the lawyer Ana Núñez.

In another judgment, the Office of the public prosecutor presented/displayed in April penal positions against Zuloaga, majority shareholder of Globovisión, unique television channel that abiertamente is against Chávez, to issue a “deception” and to offend the agent chief executive in one recent assembly of the Inter-American Society of Prensa (SIP), in Aruba.

The order of arrest of the industralist provoked preoccupations between independent groups of human rights and defenders of the freedom of press, described who it like part of the campaign of the government to silence their critics. (AP/AFP)

Energetic rejection

SIP. The president of the Inter-American Society of Press, Alexander Aguirre, condemned the judicial persecution against Zuloaga.

Aguirre, in an official notice, was sorry that “once again she is demonstrating herself in Venezuela that is independence of no powers, an essential value of the democracy, since Justice seemed that it acts whenever the president speaks he orders or it”.

MUD. The Table of the Democratic Unit rejected the measurement against the president of Globovisión. “Llama the attention, even in the case of the person most off guard, than the decision happens shortly after a threatening reference to Zuloaga on the part of the own President of the Republic. The independence of the Judicial Power is in prohibition, causing itself once again a damage not only to directly affected, but to all the Venezuelans, by the blow that it gives to the legal security in the country”.

International community. The president of the AIR, Brown Luis Sa'inz, aimed that “it is a modus operandi that looks for to avoid that the opinion leaders express themselves”. The ambassador of Panama before the OAS, Guillermo Cochez, referred that he is accusations that do not have any foundation. He affirmed that “he is not to regulate what it happens and it is necessary to condemn it”.