Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has jerked Sumate around, with a high court throwing out the entire trial as it has been flimsily assembled, and a whole new one, on different grounds, in what’s known here as double-jeopardy, being started. This, in short, is political persecution, the acts of Chavistas desperately seeking a means of jailing these people … who have done nothing wrong … any way they can.

The whole insane story’s updates, plus another update on the freedom-of-the-press attack using more double-jeopardy, is here. They’re just going to keep trying till they get them, it seems. I cannot imagine what that must be like for these brave people who challenge the dictatorial regime.

A translated El Nacional newspaper editorial on this matter can be found here.