epa02149209 A file picture dated on 06 December 2007, shows Venezuelan Army General, former Defense Minister of President Hugo Chavez, Raul Baduelas, as he talks during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela. Baduel, who nowadays is an oppositor of Hugo Chavez, was condemned on 07 May 2010 to seven years and eleven months in jail for charges of corruption on a military equipment purchase. The First Military Court pronounces in the presence of Baduel and his assistant, Colonel Hernan Medina Marval, who was given with the same condemn for the charges of ‘public fund removal’. EPA/ EPA/DAVID FERNANDEZ