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Tropical Storm Harvey heads for eastern Caribbean AP: 37 dead

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados The U.S. National Hurricane early Friday on a path to- dos directed public agen- in Venezuela
(AP) — Shops and gov- Center in Miami said Harvey ward Central America. cies and the public bus
service to shut down early prison clash
ernment offices are clos- had maximum sustained Regional airline LIAT can-
ing early in Barbados and winds of 40 mph (65 kph) celed flights Thursday in Thursday. The Chamber of
flights have been canceled on Thursday as it headed and out of Barbados and Commerce and Industry CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)
as Tropical Storm Harvey toward Barbados and St. elsewhere in the eastern urged all retail businesses — Officials pointed fingers
approaches the eastern Lucia. It was on track to Caribbean. to gradually close down in at each other Thursday
Caribbean. pass near or over Barbados The government of Barba- anticipation of the storm.q over who bore responsibil-
ity for clashes between in-
mates and security forces
Venezuela: that left 37 people dead
in a small prison in southern
Supreme Court orders dissident lawmaker’s arrest Venezuela. Interior Minister
Nestor Reverol said federal
authorities were forced to
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ take action after the Ama-
Associated Press zonas state governor failed
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) to resolve a crisis at the
— Venezuela’s high court prison in Puerto Ayacucho.
issued an arrest order for He said Gov. Liborio Gua-
the ousted chief prosecu- rulla, a member of the op-
tor’s husband Thursday position, had let the jail de-
after authorities accused scend into “a chaos in the
him of running a $6 mil- hands of gangs.”
lion extortion ring, a rul- “We are closing this prison
ing promptly denounced in order to rehabilitate it,”
by government critics as he said, adding that prison-
a move aimed at silenc- ers were being transferred
ing opponents of President to other facilities.
Nicolas Maduro. The governor put the
The government-stacked blame on the special forc-
Supreme Court also an- es troops that entered the
nounced it was referring Judicial Detention Cen-
German Ferrer’s case to ter late Tuesday in an ap-
the new, all-powerful con- parent bid to wrest back
stitutional assembly. The control from inmates. He
assembly was installed in had told The Associated
early August at Maduro’s Press on Wednesday that
behest following a widely Venezuelan Constitutional assembly delegate and Leader of Venezuela’s ruling socialist party inmates seized the prison’s
criticized vote, and it is ex- Diosdado Cabello, center, and fellow delegate Pedro Carreno, left, leaf over their papers as they interior in recent weeks,
leave the General Prosecutors office in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. Cabello
pected to proceed with lift- is alleging that the husband and close aides of ousted chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega ran a multi Guarulla remarked on Twit-
ing Ferrer’s immunity from million dollar extortion ring. ter that Venezuela’s ruling
prosecution that comes (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) socialist party had begun
with legislative office. Fer- was named by the constitu- In his statement, Ferrer said day. its campaign for the Ama-
rer is a lawmaker formerly tional assembly to replace the documents “don’t pass The constitutional assem- zonas governorship with a
aligned with Maduro’s ad- Ortega Diaz as chief pros- muster.” bly, which is tasked with “massacre.” He tweeted a
ministration who has stood ecutor, said Wednesday Cabello’s involvement in rewriting the nation’s char- gruesome photo of blood-
by his wife, Luisa Ortega that the alleged criminal the case led many to con- ter and trumps all other ied bodies piled on top of
Diaz, in denouncing the as- ring extorted money from clude it is politically moti- branches of government, each other.
sembly’s creation. people including business- vated. Opposition lawmak- has been condemned by Reverol said inmates were
In a written statement to men in the nation’s oil in- er Henry Allup questioned dozens of foreign nations armed with rifles and at
local media, Ferrer denied dustry in return for protect- the timing of the charges, which refuse to recognize least 20 grenades. The inci-
signing documents that of- ing them from prosecution. asking why they appeared it. Maduro did not hold a dent marked the deadliest
ficials are holding up as evi- Ruling socialist party leader so soon after Ferrer broke referendum asking Vene- prison violence in Venezu-
dence he opened a bank Diosdado Cabello provid- publicly with Maduro’s zuelans to approve the for- ela since a 2013 riot that
account in the Bahamas to ed prosecutors with papers government. “This is a way mation of the assembly, in- killed 61. Many of Venezu-
facilitate transactions. allegedly showing that Fer- to intimidate,” he said. stead going directly to the ela’s jails are dominated
“This government no longer rer and others opened six Ferrer and Ortega’s where- National Electoral Council by gangs that traffic drugs
has any limits or shame,” he bank accounts at the Ba- abouts Thursday were not to schedule a vote for its and weapons.
wrote. hamas branch of a Swiss clear. Authorities raided members that was boycot- Such power squabbles are
Tarek William Saab, who bank. their home the previous ted by the opposition. q not uncommon in Venezu-
ela’s 30 prisons, many of
Brazil court favors indigenous groups in land dispute which also suffer from over-
crowding. But officials said

By LILIANA MICHELENA delivering a landmark de- 1960s on state lands. munities. the facility in Puerto Ay-
aucho near Venezuela’s
Associated Press cision seen as a defeat for In an 8-0 decision, the Su- Sonia Guajajara, an indige- border with Colombia only
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — groups trying to limit native preme Federal Tribunal nous leader from the north- held slightly over 100 in-
Brazil’s top court ruled this land claims. disagreed, saying the land ern state of Maranhao, mates, all of them awaiting
week against a state that Mato Grosso, a large Brazil- was owned by the federal called the ruling a “great trial. Families of the prison-
sought federal compensa- ian state on the border with government and it had the conquest in a time when ers were still waiting Thurs-
tion for lands used to create Bolivia, had argued the re- right to hand over the terri- rights are being rolled day for the remains to be
three indigenous reserves, serves were created in the tory to the indigenous com- back.” q identified.q