When I lived in Oxford, I remember how tough the U.K. courts were in granting asylum to Romanians fleeing Ceaucescu’s communist hellhole, perhaps fearing a flood of people. They gave almost no one a break.

This being England, things don’t change that much, and I doubt U.K. courts are any less tough. So it tells you something when a British court acknowleged the intolerable reality of Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and granted a young Venezuelan couple asylum. Alek Boyd’s gotten hold of some court documents that show the ordeal of the dissidents, and with the court’s note that Venezuela has assumed the economic and political model of Cuba.

Hugo Chavez has turned Venezuela into a den of opppression, and the days are not coming but already here that people flee for their lives to just get out. Hugo Chavez has turned Venezuela into an impossible tyranny. And now it’s bleeding people. This is a part of a great exodus that we will hear more about. Don’t believe me? Then read the original documents here.