CARACAS.- At least 30 citizens have been killed in Venezuela since Monday, July 29, when protests broke out in rejection of the fraudulent results of the National Electoral Council (CNE) which, despite not having been published or audited, give the winner as Nicolas Maduro.
The team of the Human Rights Committee of Vente Venezuela, a party chaired by the opposition leader Maria Corina Machadohad identified by the afternoon of Thursday, August 2, 21 of the protesters killed after the brutal repression by state security officials and armed groups of the Chavista regime, in the states of Aragua (center), Bolívar (southeast), Carabobo (center), Caracas (capital), Guárico (center), Miranda (center), Yaracuy (center-north), Táchira (southwest) and Zulia (northwest).
According to a balance sheet to which he had access THE AMERICAS DAILY, The deceased by state are:
- Aragua: Ramses Izarra, Isaiah Fuenmayor, Jesus Medina, Jesus Tovar, Jose Antonio Torres Blanco and Anthony Jose Moya Mantia.
- Bolívar: Luis Roberto.
- Carabobo: Alfonso Busto.
- Caracas: Jeison Spain, Anthony Canizalez, Junior Mendoza, Olinyer Montano, Jeison Javier Bracho Martinez and Anibal Jose Romero Salazar.
- Guarico: Elier Calzadilla.
- Miranda: Carlos Porras and Yorgenis Leyva.
- Yaracuy: Yhon Graterol and Astrid Perez.
- Tachira: Julio Valerio Garcia.
- Zulia: Gustavo Rojas.
“The regime no longer cares about its ways”
He Maduro regime has intensified repression against the Venezuelans, who have taken to the streets in defense of popular sovereignty, expressed on July 28 at the ballot boxes that, according to the minutes digitized by the democratic opposition, gave the unitarian standard-bearer, Edmundo González Urrutia, as president-elect.
This “systematic policy of repression and criminalization against dissidents,” which currently has more than 300 political prisoners according to the NGO Foro Penal, has worsened in recent days, says the Human Rights Committee of Vente Venezuela.
“What we have seen in the last few days has undoubtedly been the worst of them. There is no longer a pattern to follow. In the midst of their desperation, they have attacked the general public and that is much more complex and dangerous,” says the team of activists and human rights defenders.
In this new stage, the Chavista dictatorship not only persecutes and represses political leaders, their entourage or people close to political organizations. “They go further, against citizens who exercised their right to vote and who peacefully attend rallies, even those who share their opinion on social networks against what citizens see as an injustice. The regime no longer cares about its ways and goes against anyone they consider as an enemy, because that is how they see who opposes them,” warns the Committee in conversation with THE AMERICAS DAILY.
Criminalization of demonstrations
Since the end of the electoral campaign on July 25, the Human Rights Committee of Vente Venezuela, in collaboration with regional teams and human rights organizations, has been able to verify at least 483 possible cases of crimes against humanity, 41 of which were recorded in the metropolitan area of Caracas and 441 in the rest of the country.
Among them, they count 389 arbitrary arrests, 24 forced disappearances, 25 cases of repression and political violence, 24 cases of intimidation, threats and harassment and one case of torture. Among the latest arrests by the regime is that of the national leader of Voluntad Popular, Freddy Superlanowhose whereabouts have been unknown since Tuesday, July 30, when he was taken from a residence east of Caracas by men dressed in black in an unmarked van.
The regime trivializes murders in Venezuela
Faced with the massive and spontaneous demonstrations that spread throughout Venezuela and reached, for the first time in 20 years, the vicinity of the Miraflores Palace, Maduro ordered the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Godfather Lopezto “defeat” the civil rebellion, enshrined in Article 350 of the Constitution, which he has tried to sell as a “coup d’état.”
Since Maduro came to power in 2013, more than 10,000 extrajudicial executions have been recorded in Venezuela, 250 murders in the context of protests and more than 1,650 cases of torture, according to the NGO Provea, which have led to the Chavista regime being investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity, for which the Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, said on July 31 that he was going to request an arrest warrant against the Chavista leader from the international court.
Despite this, both the socialist dictator and his prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, have chosen to trivialize and mock the recent murders. Maduro assured that the death of Aníbal José Romero Salazar, alias “Pampina”, was a false positive and presented before international media a subject named Albert Giuseppe Salazar Alvarado, who indicated that it was all a “simulation.”
For his part, Saab, who has been called the “poet of torture,” he mocked murderclaiming that the victims fake their wounds with “tomato sauce” to simulate blood. “They have simulated criminal acts and they are going to be arrested for that. They fall on the floor, they pour tomato sauce on the person on the ground, something never seen before,” he said.
Source: With information from social networks / DLA editorial staff