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Article: A Byte of Freedom; From Detention, Venezuela's Ex-Leader Surfs Internet
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 27, 1995
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E-mail junkies across the Americas know him as
73050.2251@compuserve.com. Drop him a line, says former president
Carlos Andres Perez, and he will gladly respond, because he has
nothing but time on his hands.
Perez, under house arrest at his hilltop mansion on charges that
he illegally diverted $17 million in secret government funds, said he
regularly hitches rides on the information superhighway, leaving
Venezuela behind as he awaits a Supreme Court verdict on the case
that led to his 1993 impeachment.
He already has spent more than a year in his gilded cage
overlooking the Venezuelan capital, but the 72-year-old Perez said he
does not plan to sit idly waiting while his life dwindles away.
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