[8][failed verification] The evening after his departure, his house was attacked and ransacked, and a military intelligence agent guarding it killed.
[8][failed verification] Pérez' temporary removal from office was made permanent in August 1993, and he was convicted of corruption and sentenced to 28 months' imprisonment in 1996.
[9] Poleo left Venezuela for Florida a second time after charges were brought over remarks he made in a Globovisión television programme in 2008.
On 13 October 2008 on Aló Ciudadano he said "I am concerned that Hugo (Chávez) may end his days like Mussolini did: hanging heels over head."
According to El Universal, "Government officials branded such remarks as solicitation to assassination, civil disobedience and rebellion against the public powers.