IT WAS a military-style operation, of the kind you would
mount to collar a dangerous drug lord. On the afternoon of February 19th dozens
of agents of Venezuela’s state security service, Sebin, armed with automatic
weapons and a sledgehammer (but no arrest warrant) burst into a suite of
offices on the sixth floor of a tower block in El Rosal, a normally quiet
district of Caracas. Their quarry was not some villain but the 59-year-old
mayor of metropolitan Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. After a day and a half in
Sebin’s custody he was sent to a military jail to await trial on charges of
conspiring to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s
president. More… 
Monday, March 2, 2015
Tyranny looms
IT WAS a military-style operation, of the kind you would
mount to collar a dangerous drug lord. On the afternoon of February 19th dozens
of agents of Venezuela’s state security service, Sebin, armed with automatic
weapons and a sledgehammer (but no arrest warrant) burst into a suite of
offices on the sixth floor of a tower block in El Rosal, a normally quiet
district of Caracas. Their quarry was not some villain but the 59-year-old
mayor of metropolitan Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. After a day and a half in
Sebin’s custody he was sent to a military jail to await trial on charges of
conspiring to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s
president. More… 
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