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April 23, 2009

Venezuelan Opposition Leader Seeks Peru Asylum
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A Venezuelan opposition leader is seeking asylum in Peru over what he
calls political persecution at home. Manuel Rosales is in the Peruvian
capital of Lima, where government officials say they’re examining his
asylum request. On Wednesday, a Venezuelan judge ordered Rosales’s
arrest on corruption charges.



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