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Venezuelans living abroad have targeted regime officials and have made known their displeasure with them.
Last Sunday, a group of Venezuelans residing in the state of Florida gathered outside the residence of Carlos Maximo Aniasi Turchio, an alleged former member of the army during Chavez’s administration who lives in the city of Orlando.
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“This is the kind of person who has told the Venezuelan people that socialism is good when they are starving, have no medicine and are eating out of the trash,” said a Venezuelan who shared a video of the protest.
In the video, the Venezuelans express their anger at the luxury the former officials enjoy. According to the records of the city of Orlando, the house in question, located in the area of Winter Park, was bought by Carlos Aniasi in the year 2014 for USD $347,800.
But that is not his only house. He also has another one registered 30 miles away purchased at a cost of USD $260,000 in the month of December 2016.
Turchio is not the only person linked to Chavismo who has been targeted by the Venezuelan protesters. Former public banking officer Eugenio Vasquez Orellana (2009-2010), was forced to leave a bakery located in the city of Doral, also in Florida, on Sunday morning, after his compatriots who were in the same place shouted “thief” and “rat.”
In Weston, Florida, former judge Dayva Soto and her husband Rafael Ricardo Jimenez also stared down protesters, who located the address of their home valued at USD $925,000. They arrived last Friday night, shouting “you will pay for what you’ve done.”
Soto responded to the event on her Twitter account saying that the act was “an injustice against me and my family.”
Venezuelans who protested accused the former judge of having imprisoned opposition leader Henrique Capriles, nevertheless the same former candidate to the Venezuelan presidency, showed his support for Soto saying that “she had the courage to give me freedom when almost 40 judges had avoided the case. Honor those to whom honor is due,” said Capriles.
Source: El Nuevo Herald
