VENEZUELA: VENEZUELA'S FORMER PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PERES RELEASED AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS UNDER HOUSE ARREST
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VENEZUELA: VENEZUELA'S FORMER PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PERES RELEASED AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS UNDER HOUSE ARREST
- Title: VENEZUELA: VENEZUELA'S FORMER PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PERES RELEASED AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS UNDER HOUSE ARREST
- Date: 19th September 1996
- Summary: CARACAS, VENEZUELA (SEPTEMBER 19, 1996) (RTV ) SV SUPPORTERS OF FOREMER VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ OUTSIDE HIS HOME 0.14 MCU PEREZ SPEAKING AT NEWS CONFERENCE HELD AT HIS HOME/ PEREZ SAYING THAT HE WOULD NEVER RUN AGAIN AS PRESIDENT AND THAT HE HAS SOME RESERVATIONS BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE HE HAS BEEN OUT OF POLITICS (SPANISH) 0.58 SV PEREZ GOES OUTSIDE HOME 1.10 MCU ANTONIO LACAYO, SON-IN-LAW OF NICARAGUA'S PRESIDENT VIOLETTA CHAMORRO REPRESENTING HIS COUNTRY, SAYING THAT MORE PRESIDENTS LIKE PEREZ ARE NEEDED TO DEFEND LATIN AMERICA (SPANISH) 1.30 MCU FORMER PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS RAFAEL LEONARDO CALEJAS SAYING THAT HOPEFULLY PEREZ WILL BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE GOALS THAT NO OTHER POLITICIAN HAS BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE (SPANISH) 1.45 SV PEREZ SURROUNDED BY SUPPORTERS GOING BACK INSIDE HOME 1.56 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 4th October 1996 13:00
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- Location: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
- Country: Venezuela
- Topics: Crime,General,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVAB88M7LMJ6F05XDTOJQYMH8GXF
- Story Text: Venezuela's former president, Carlos Andres Perez, has been released after more than two years under house arrest.
Former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez was a free man on Thursday (September 19) after more than two years under house arrest.
Hundreds of supporters and media greeted the former president as he walked from his Caracas home.
Forced out of office in May 1993 to face corruption charges eight months short of completing a second five-year presidential term, the flamboyant Perez said he planned a quick return to public life.
"I am happy," he told hundreds of friends and cheering supporters on the doorstep of the luxury colonial residence which had been his jail since July 1994. He had previously spent two months at the Caracas low security Junquito prison.
"I'm back on the streets and it's on the streets that we shall seek peace for Venezuela and solutions to the country's woes," he added.
The first Latin American leader to be convicted of corruption, Perez has maintained that he was wrongly convicted for misappropriating 17 million US dollars in state funds.
A 73-year-old social democrat and the first Venezuelan to win two presidential elections, Perez has survived jail, exile and two coup attempts during a controversial political career spanning five decades. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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