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Quico says: As I think about it, the truly newsworthy aspect of the jailing of the judge who freed Eligio Cedeño isn’t that they jailed her – hell, that’s almost normal – but that they jailed the whole damn court!
We’re talking bailiffs jailed for carrying out a judge’s order to release a prisoner. Apparently, in the chavista version of Judicial Review, bailiffs are now supposed to act as a kind of first court of appeal: carefully reading through any judge’s order to make sure everything’s on the up’n’up before carrying our their orders. We’re talking – bizarrely – one of Cedeño’s defense lawyers, José Rafael Parra Saluzzo, jailed for the unspeakable crime of being in the room as his client was released.
Chavismo now inhabits its new identity as basically unapologetic dictatorship so brazenly, so openly, so shockingly blithely it’s hard to imagine how we could sink any deeper. And yet one thing we’ve learned: we can…oh yes we can.
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