Politics
Corruption charges against Manuel Rosales, mayor elect of Maracaibo, western Zulia State, are being investigated and the findings will be released "over the next few months," reported Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz.

"In the upcoming months, there will be specific results on the Rosales' case," said Ortega in a press release from the Attorney General Office, Efe quoted.

President Hugo Chávez and some allies have accused Rosales, the current Zulia state governor of "corrupt and drug trafficker" and asked the Attorney General to investigate him.

"Rosales will go to jail," said Chávez time after time during the campaign prior to the election for state governors and mayors held last Sunday. The polls turned Rosales into the new Maracaibo mayor.

The president insisted last Monday on saying that Rosales "should be accountable to justice" and recalled that on leaving his incumbency as governor, the opposition leader will lose his privilege of a preliminary trial, and could be directly prosecuted.