Thursday, July 11, 2013 lawyer Alfredo
Romero spoke in The Hague, in the World Justice Forum, denouncing the tragic situation
of political prisoners and the harassment to which Venezuelan political
dissidents are subjected. Lawyer Fernando Vegas Torrealba, Vice-president of
the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, who was attending the Forum, immediately stood up and made
an impassionate defense of the revolution while criticizing the opposition.
Magistrate Fernando Vegas Torrealba
Lawyer Alfredo Romero commented
to the audience that such a posture by a magistrate of the Venezuelan Supreme
Tribunal of Justice precisely confirmed what he had been denouncing, this is,
the political control exercised by the Venezuelan government over the judicial
system.
Lawyer Fernando Vegas Torrealba
often performs on behalf of the Venezuelan authoritarian government in domestic
and international events, in spite of being a magistrate of the Venezuelan Supreme
Tribunal. In 2011 he made an all-expenses paid tour of U.S. cities, in which he
spoke of the excellences of the revolution of Hugo Chavez. I attended his talk
at American University in Washington and must say that the audience, mostly
made up of lawyers or students of law, was extremely surprised to see a member
of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of a country with democratic pretensions taking
such an unabashed political posture. See my post: http://lasarmasdecoronel.blogspot.com/2011/02/fernando-vegas-torrealba-vergonzoso.html
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