Venezuela - Provincial journalist prosecuted again, this time on dubious criminal libel charge

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Gustavo Azócar, a journalist based in the western state of Táchira who has been prosecuted with varying degrees of success in the past, was due to appear today before a Táchira court again on a charge of libelling an army officer in 2004, when one of his jobs was correspondent for the national daily El Universal. The case is prompted by article he wrote for El Universal on 12 September 2004 about alleged trafficking in identity papers at the National Office for Identification and Foreigners (...)

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