Alek boyd on vcrisis reports that the first reporter's house has been raided by security services in Venezuela. This is bad stuff — the bloggers have always told me that so long as the mouthy reporters weren't being touched, they weren't that worried. Now they have been, with a raid.

This has terrible implications for freedom of speech in Venezuela. Patricia Poleo, whose house was raided, was one of the most outspoken ones and had the real lowdown, apparently, on the carbomb murder of Danilo Anderson, the prosecutor, last November, implicating the regime. Now they've moved in on her.

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