FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C), his wife Cilia Flores (front R) and National Constituent Assembly President Delcy Rodriguez (front L) arrive for a session of the assembly at Palacio Federal Legislativo in Caracas, Venezuela, September 7, 2017. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
SAN JOSE DE GUANIPA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Francisco Belisario, a Venezuelan mayor, retired general and member of the ruling Socialist party, had enough. His loudest local critic had accused him of bungling the response to the coronavirus outbreak and other big problems.
In August, he wrote a state prosecutor and requested an "exhaustive investigation" of his nemesis, Giovanni Urbaneja, a former lawmaker who had become a gadfly to the mayor and other Socialist officeholders. Urbaneja, Belisario wrote in a letter reviewed by Reuters, was conducting a "ferocious smear campaign" on Facebook and elsewhere.
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