Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz acknowledged that her office doubted U.S. authorities would deport Eligio Cedeño and stressed that the prosecution does not formally know Cedeño's status on U.S. soil. "We request the extradition of Posada Carriles, and although it's been more than three years, to date we have had no response. Although there is an extradition agreement, they have not responded to our request about Posada Carriles. We can not expect Eligio Cedeño to be deported," she said. Cedeño spent two years and ten months in prison at the headquarters of the Disip, received a limited release on 10 December and left the country. On Monday, it was confirmed that he was in Miami.
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has stated in a press release, accessible here, its deep concern at the arrest of Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, of the 31st Control Court of the Judicial Criminal Circuit of Metropolitan Caracas, in relation to the case of Mr. Eligio Cedeño.
Cable television stations with more than 70 percent of domestic production will have to meet the same standards applied to broadcast television, including the transmission of presidential and government advertising channels at no cost, according to new rules adopted by the National Commission of Telecommunications (Conatel) of Venezuela. The measure appears to affect mainly Radio Caracas Television, which was the most popular open signal until 2007, when the government decided not to renew its broadcasting license in a controversial decision. Months later, the channel "reinvented" itself through cable services, becoming the most popular on cable, which has also seen significant growth in the number of its subscribers over the past two years.
Venezuela and China consolidated 29 new agreements in various strategic areas for further promotion and development of binational cooperation. The signing of these was conducted by President Chávez and the head of China's National Reform and Development Commission, Zhang Ping, among other authorities of both countries, during the closing ceremony of the eighth meeting of the Joint Commission at the Caracas Military Academy. The new agreements include the areas of energy exploration and production in the Junin 8 and Boyaca 3 blocks of the Orinoco Oil Belt. The accord also established a supply of crude and products between PDVSA and Petro China to supply 500,000 barrels per day and agreed on the cooperation and production of fish and shrimp farming, and new joint ventures among others. So far trade accords between China and Venezuela have reached $10 billion, not including the new eleven and the Bilateral Fund which increased in 2009 to $12 billion.
On Tuesday, with the publication of the Official Gazette No. 39,332, the national government imposed controls on electricity use in residential, commercial and industrial areas, and restricted the energy supply for shopping centres and casinos. The National Electricity Corporation (Corpoelec) imposed on Tuesday a series of regulations to force industry, commerce and residential facilities to save electricity or suffer penalties on bill payments. The new regulation provides that heavy industries demanding more than 5 megawatts, and businesses, shops and residential centres using 2 megawatts, should impose a energy saving plan involving a 20% reduction in energy consumption in comparison with the same period last year.
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