A story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez reads that instead of toilets, a guest house provides masks for its customers to go to the streets to answer the call of nature. A face is hidden by that who is ashamed of his actions. What is behind the masked terrorism in Venezuela?
A plot of national and international media aims at presenting terrorists as students and peaceful people. Figures say otherwise. In early May, Prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz disclosed that about 800 people were arrested since February 12th, most of them were retained just to prevent that they continued with violent actions and were released a few hours later; out of it, about 174 were imprisoned while investigations moved on. Among these imprisoned, only 12 were students, less than 7%. Also in early May, authorities seized several campings set up in thoroughfares as permanent cores of disturbance, and 243 people were arrested. Just 20% of them were students. Safety guards at Venezuela's Central University (UCV) arrested five violent people bearing weapons inside the educational facilities. Only one of them was a student, but from another university. UCV's rector fires the guards for doing their job.
Venezuelan General Prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz reveals on Friday May 9th that 49 out of 190 opponents arrested during the evacuation of campings were positive for drug consumption in toxicology tests. About a fourth of those examined were under the influence of drugs. It does not seem to be an exemplary behavior for citizens devoted to defend their political rights. Do they want to seize power to impose their models of behavior on the rest of the population?
The Interior and Justice minister informs that there are 58 foreign citizens among those arrested. Out of it, 21 are proven Colombian paramilitary soldiers, others have Interpol arrest warrants, others are terrorists wanted in the Middle East: some of them possessed a stock of weapons and incendiary substances, many of them have criminal records for drug trafficking or international terrorism. This is the method proved at length in Nicaragua, Lebanon, Syria, in many other places: flooding peaceful countries with armed foreign hired killers to legitimate destructive foreign interventions. Aren't there any Venezuelans to make political opposition? If these outsiders triumph, will they carry out their peaceful professions from power?
Basing on news analyses of media outlets and reports of the Network of Support for Justice and Peace, PROVEA, Amnesty International, Network La Araña Feminista, UCV's Center for Peace and Human Rights, website Aporrea, a written report by journalist Luigino Bracci on April 15th 2014 and summaries made by journalist Modesto Emilia Guerrero, we made a still provisional counting of casualties between February 12th and mid April.
Behind the mask, international and national media lie, hide peaceful beings. The violence staged since February 12th has claimed 42 lives. These may be separated into the following categories: 1) 20 Bolivarian deaths, divided into 9 militants of PSUV and related social groups, 10 members of state-run security bodies (GNB, PNB and SEBIN) and 1 Public Ministry attorney. 2) 15 citizens with unknown political leaning, victims of diverse violent situations. 3) The rest of the deaths may be attached to the opposition; but only 8 of them died in situations which are attributable to authorities and 7 were victims of accidents or fights caused by their roadblocks or their own actions: one person died while using an improvised mortar, another received an electric shock while placing a barricade, a third fell from the roof of his own house. We do not include in this list horrific murders committed against Bolivarian citizens or notable people with presumable terrorist intention, but with no definitive evidence yet.
Disproportion is significant. Out of 42 deaths, about 20 -almost half of it- belong to Bolivarian ranks, among them 11 officers who were doing their job; and other 15 have not known political leaning but they died due to opposition violence. There would be about 15 victims among opponents, about a third of the total but only 8 of them owed directly to actions carried out by authorities; less than sixth of the casualties. They would all be alive if opponents would not had chose the path of overthrowing violently a legitimately elected government.
It distorts the idea that homicidal violence may be caused by unarmed and even less peaceful students. A significant part of Bolivarian victims died due to shots in the head, sometimes long-distance shots. An opposition student died shot in the back of the neck. Obviously fired from the same ranks she was marching with. An artisan and a young pregnant woman were murdered with shotguns. They are not tactics used by disarmed, let alone peaceful students. Neither are the arson attacks and destruction to a hundred of collective passenger transports, several power stations, either the arson attack to universities, libraries and public offices, one of them with 89 children of a nursery. No, a first look below the mask shows terrorist, professional, sometimes foreign and hired crime.
The record of deaths continues as a shadow for the right-wing political domain. Emilio Guerrero says that 52% of the victims died in the Capital city, that out of 12 victims in it, 9 died in eastern housing complexes where opposition mayors and their police protect terrorists; that 4 people died in Merida and 6 in San Cristobal. There are other three victims in Aragua, in neighborhoods controlled by Voluntad Popular and 2 in Maracaibo, whose mayor's office is opponent. It's not truth that this is a nationwide unrest: victims fall in a scarce number of neighborhoods in capital cities privileged by opposition authorities and police that connive with culprits, and in states near the border, where paramilitary and hired killers have been arrested.
Not a single speech, any manifesto, any government plan has been put as excuse for this disaster, except the proposal of that who wins elections may not rule. We hide our purposes when they can be confessed much less than our actions. A mass campaign of havoc and murders does not remain for over three months without connivance neither funding. Countless detainees have confessed they were payed a thousand bolivares per day, and three thousand if they participated with motorcycles. Should we lift the mask a bit more? Behind it can be seen the CIA, USAID and NED, a thousand and one NGO created to distribute their funds and businesspeople to pay hired killers, opposition parties who have not condemned terrorism, Alvaro Uribe Velez's Democratic Internationalism Foundation, the Neoliberal Package that will privatize PDVSA and education, health and social security and bring back last century's levels of poverty by 70%. I know you, little mask. Do not try to fool me.
Luis Britto García (AVN)
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