2023-04-25 19:34:53
Rotting makes justice non-existent in Venezuela.
Luis Fuenmayor Toro
Two recent violent events remind us once again of the precarious state of the Venezuelan justice system, in which we include not only the courts of the republic, but also the Public Ministry, the non-existent Ombudsman, state security agencies and the national prison system. And please don’t correct me by saying that some of the organisms mentioned are not necessarily part of the same system. Everybody knows what I’m talking about.
The first case is that of the murder of the Forensic Medicine Service worker Nazareth Marín, who was found murdered in the Mare Abajo sector of La Guaira on March 23, four days after she disappeared after traveling accompanied by an agent of the CICPC, in what was supposed to be a day at the beach of rest and distraction. According to press reports, they all returned to Caracas without Nazareth, who was later declared missing. The explanations about what happened by the CICPC detective who looked for her were somewhat strange.
Four people have been detained for the incident: two CICPC officials, including the La Guaira homicide chief, and a lady who apparently acted as an accomplice. The case has been complicating with the complaints from the victim’s mother, who claims to be being threatened by unknown motorists. Additionally, relatives of one of the detainees denounce irregularities in the procedures, unfounded accusations, and violations of due process. Certainly, the investigations of the alleged aggravated femicide and sexual violence against the victim tend to get mixed up.
The other case that has impacted public opinion is that of the alleged suicide of Leoner Azuaje, the PSUV median leader, while he was an inmate in SEBIN, accused by the Public Ministry of corruption, within the current day deployed by the government. on the occasion of the PDVSA case, which led to the resignation of Tareck el Aissami as oil minister. As we are accustomed to, the prosecutor Tarek William Saab advanced his opinion that it was a suicide, without waiting for the investigations of the case.
It was something very similar to what happened with councilor Fernando Albán, a member of the Primero Justicia opposition party, who was also incarcerated in SEBIN and allegedly committed suicide by throwing himself out of a window from the tenth floor of the police agency’s headquarters building. Albán’s case is even more serious as he is the victim of a forced disappearance, since being in the hands of SEBIN, no authority gave a reason for his whereabouts. So much was the pressure and so much evidence that the Attorney General ended up acting in the face of what he called negligent action by the councilor’s custodians.
SEBIN has a history of deaths and “suicides” of prisoners. After a year in prison (2015), Rodolfo González, known as “El Aviador” (former civil aviation captain) hangs himself; Carlos Andrés García (2017), a Guasdualito councilor, also died after suffering a cerebrovascular accident at that SEBIN regional headquarters and only being treated 12 days later.
Other political prisoners have died in custody in different organizations. Among them we have Nelson Martínez, former president of PDVSA and former oil minister; Rafael Acosta Arévalo, lieutenant commander of the FANB, pathetic case, where the detainee is presented dying by the DGCIM in court, after infamous torture; Virgilio Jiménez, student of the IUTIRLA; Pedro Pablo Santana, agricultural producer; Salvador Franco, an indigenous Pemón ethnic group, who died due to a lack of medical attention ordered by a court, but neglected by the Bolívar prison where he was; and Raúl Isaías Baduel, a sad case known to all.
The decomposition of courts, prosecutors and prison organizations is tragic in the country. Criminal judges only act on orders from “above” or for the collection of large sums of money. The same thing happens with many prosecutors. The situation of the non-political prisoner population is also catastrophic. The permanent violation of human rights and due process has no parallel in our recent history. Rotting makes justice non-existent in Venezuela. The challenge to face in the future will be very great, if it is possible to electorally displace those who currently hold power.
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