UPDATE: Check out Setty’s post here. Setty is reporting on Twitter that Otto Reich, former U.S. Secretary of State for Latin America and ambassador to Venezuela, is suing Derwick Associates for extortion in the U.S. The targets are the unlikely trio of Alejandro Betancourt López and Pedro Trebbau, the two directors behind Derwick Associates who are quite familiar to the readers of this blog.
Rereading Reich’s opinion piece from December 2012 on the undefined corruption in Venezuela offers an intellectual perspective. In Venezuela, borrowing from Gabo, we would call the piece in El Heraldo: “Chronicle of a death foretold.” Stay tuned…