Venezuela: Not the state policy and the security forces that torture, repress and murder
We declare total rejection of torture, the murder of detainees, imprisonment in cruel and inhuman conditions. Violations of due process, arbitrary detentions, political persecution and widespread repression against the people. Two cases have shaken in recent days to the opinion Venezuelan and international: torture and death of a detainee criminal military in DGCIM (FANB responsibility and government) and penetration of the eyes of a teenager by a discharge of buckshot at close range, executed by a repressive state (Poly-Táchira). The bourgeois state shows its repressive and rights violator status, whatever the administration to lead it.
Torture and death of Captain (R) Acosta Arévalo custody of the Directorate General of Military Intelligence Contra (DGCIM), regardless of the reasons for his detention, It is a sign of the degree of degeneration of state security in Venezuela, outside the Constitution, laws and conventions on Human Rights. Have been known allegations of torture by military coup leaders accused other activities, Captain Emmy as Da Costa, Captain Caguaripano and Colonel Mejías Laya, among others. Not long ago scandal with the "suicide" Councilman simulated Albán, arrested opposition in the SEBIN.
The other event that has caused shock, almost immediately the death of Acosta Arevalo, is the emptying of the eyes and privation of sight to the young Rufo Chacon, to shoot the face perdigonazos, in a bestial onslaught of the police in Tachira, a communal protest against the lack of domestic gas. This boy must be addressed by the State in all health requirements and should be compensated for life by the mayhem they have caused, beyond the immediate punishment of those responsible.
Human rights violations are the work of the bourgeois state as a whole, at different levels, on whether the central organs, regional or municipal law enforcement agencies, They are administered by the government or opposition; but above all is the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior and Justice, National Government as such and institutions members of the Moral Power. The heads of the police to the agents belonging perpetrators should be removed from office, as required by the relatives of the victim, and should be reviewed throughout the chain of command that allows these atrocities continue to occur again and again. Venezuelan society must urgently put all police and security agencies comprehensive review.
The state exercises its role as an instrument of domination
The state, in the first reaction, often deny or conceal the facts, then offer "Thorough investigation, to the end and whoever falls ", but almost always ends "Crazy making". And if there is much pressure is imputed to another official, as if there were no institutional responsibilities and intellectual authors; leaving everything as "Excesses", “isolated incidents " O individual "abuses" ...” but soon recur. Attorney General just impute officials allegedly involved in the death of Captain for "manslaughter", not to mention as a cause torture.
These events have long been the rule and true protocol of the police and the GNB to government orders, that they have nothing to do with the "democratic order" much less "socialism". The president of the Republic, with inappropriate language, He said at the award ceremony Journalist Day, that detainees in DGCIM were "singing like Pavarotti". ¿When are what "music"?
While this happens in the political arena, social the people are repressed by making just claims. There is no evidence of relatives and neighbors of how lashes out indiscriminately and extrajudicial executions practiced, especially through the FAES, as usual way of acting against the alleged crime, even to murder ("unsubscribe") the "targets" against their mothers, parents, Spouses and children, inside their homes; but then the report speaks of "confrontation" street.
Police and military are singled out by the people for the "truncheon" in alcabalas, actions of extortion and blackmail, charges "toll" and "vaccines", illegal seizures, all kinds of abuse and involvement in other crimes. Repression and abuses are not only against political opposition; There habitual use of the judicial and prison system for the industry of kidnapping and extortion also. Not a few of the former "collectives" have been transmuted as paramilitaries involved in repressive action, with obvious government sponsorship or some bureaucratic sector with high power. Suppose you are "closer"; It is what is said on the street, what counts in the neighborhood, what is says family, which rolls on social networks ...
From the bowels of the state it has been proliferating the repressor virus and destroying its popular connection, characteristic of the early stages of the process bolivariano. We still ask for Alcedo Mora, forced disappeared. We remember the onslaughts against the Yukpa Cacique Sabino. repression is also exerted, greater or lesser intensity, on labor activists, Popular and peasants protesting government employer practices and policies.
There's the case of Rodney Alvarez Ferrominero: imprisoned without trial for many years and now with a very lengthy process, when there are collective evidence pointing to the true perpetrator of a crime is blamed as retaliation for his fight and concealing someone from the official unions. Another leader of the ferromineros, Ruben Mendoza, He has been imprisoned for their protest actions. We can not forget, much further back, For Mitsubishi; point-blank murder of workers within the automotive plant 2009, by police in Anzoategui, during the tenure as governor of the Attorney General today.
Social and political protests in previous years and 2017 They have left dozens dead and hundreds injured, not justified as the price of containment of opposition street violence, for a while there is every reason to protest in Venezuela. That was not only a selective repression against criminals right in the middle of the guarimbas burned people, but it was exercised indiscriminately.
We were short on examples. And while these events occur, many ways in which these complaints are aired remain blocked arbitrarily by the State, such as the popular alternative Whack-page and other digital portals.
So we are facing a behavior that has been normalized in the country; a repressive format in which it acts or is allowed to act, and on which, the government can not ignore its responsibility or deny that it is a result of your driving.
And this is nothing less than the establishment of a state-militarized and corrupt police, which it has been placed above all democratic institutions and legal regulation. This is a whole line of conduct that sum and numerous cases and denoting a state policy, instituting coming back into Venezuela's torturous and murderous practices against which has raised our people in different chapters of our history, although today the government does so with the excuse of confronting the conspiracy or confront imperialism.
We may require thorough cleaning and restructuring of these repressive bodies, but it would be useless, because the damage is root and is linked to the character Venezuelan state and particularly profile has been gaining under the current political and military leadership that handles, instead of shedding the repressive legacy of the Fourth Republic, now plays more than.
It can not be otherwise when the state remains an instrument of domination and class oppression. Why, along what we know as Bolivarian revolution (Today liquidated and extinct by the work of reformism, corruption and betrayal), the working class and the people we fail to establish and consolidate the people's power, totalitarian giving way to spoil a new breed or class, which is mixed with other sectors of the bourgeoisie and global capitalism.
It is not justified in any case the violation of rights
We are absolutely against those who organize coups or promote invasion of the country with calls for Trump, but strongly we reject the use of torture, cruel and degrading treatment, and murder, as a method to handle cases of alleged coup plot and even "terrorism" and assassination plans.
Nothing is permissible to the government and its agents outside the guarantees established in the Venezuelan Constitution. The alleged involvement in acts of terrorism, conspiracy, preparation or attempts of coups does not justify the government violates due process and human rights. But not only such practices and similar actions are used in these cases. They constitute a recurring form of state and government to confront the political opposition sign it and to persecute dissidents. It is equally unjustifiable and condemnable violent and armed repression against the protests of the oppressed and lacerated by the crisis.
Repression rages because there was a "change of direction" backwards and are facing a government "Stalinoid", right.
It is also one of the typical responses to those who denounce and reveal the face of what ended up being a 'change of direction "backwards, with pronounced shift to another version of right-wing politics, under the rhetorical guise of "socialism" Lie. This is what applies bureaucracy from power, military service threads, mafias and criminal economy circuits, embezzling the nation, destruction of labor rights framework, creating labor semi-slave, delivery of resources to the predatory extractivism and transfer of sovereignty to the emerging imperialisms, and underground privatization, among other manifestations of a counter own, that is what we have today over.
In each other violations of rights, "investigations" generally do not solve anything if they are involved military, officers or senior officials. Rarely appears a "scapegoat" to hold public pressure. Thus, it requires independent research, with broad participation and plural composition, including experts and human rights organizations, to inquire into and report with adherence to the Constitution, the Venezuelan laws and international conventions governing the matter.
Impunity and political negotiation
What prevails is impunity, but also the use of prisoners as letters of political negotiation, when we see that in the midst of "dialogue" between the government and the rightist opposition, strangely, it leaks Ivan Simonovis, author of serious human rights violations, as the murders of Puente Llaguno for which he was prosecuted former security chief of the Mayor when the coup of April 2002. It lets go rapist who personifies the spirit of rights that characterizes traditional Venezuelan right pawned, by coup and interventional via, to regain power.
For "tactical" reasons and imperial pressures, "justice" applied in a discriminatory manner: put prisoners and torture alleged military coup, but do not mess with Guaidó, despite being involved in equally serious crimes or more serious, it is not imprisoned for attempting a coup nor "authorize" the invasion of the country, Appealing to the status of "president" self-proclaimed. As part of the negotiation and there is an imperial threat, he did not touch it, for the moment.
A call to the social and political organizations to defend human rights and democratic
All of the above, We resounding call for social and political organizations linked to the working class, communities and farmers, the political currents that are considered truly revolutionary, to assume with determination the active denunciation of all repression, torture, murders, disappearances and arbitrary detentions. Also we do to defend free communication.
We intend also to make international campaigns, along with other revolutionary organizations in the world, for the defense of human rights and democratic freedoms in Venezuela, to be performed without allowing other manipulations serving elites of power and those who use them to justify interventionist plans or imperialist invasion against Venezuela's sovereignty.
It must denounce the coup actions, conspiratorial and adventurous classical riding right group Guaidó, and even the secret negotiations outside the village, what they bring is more repression and make excuses for the continuity of government abuses. And while they negotiate, schedule does not enter the suspension of the implementation of adjustment measures downloading the crisis on the people and on workers, while the great entrepreneurs and speculators take advantage of what the government for further savage capitalism in Venezuela.
This state is irreformable and you have to create a new correlation of forces of the people to destroy it and replace it with the working class at the head
The bureaucratic state lumpen-capitalist and neo-bourgeois, emerged from the capture of income for political and military power, You can not do more than reproduce or worse vices of the Fourth Republic and oppressive regimes that have subjugated the Venezuelan people. This state and its corrupt administrators, bourgeois and bureaucratic, They have no choice, They are not essentially reformable. The neo-Bourgeois bureaucracy, consuming and wasteful of national income, weaving a mafia skein in institutions and the economy, It is destructive of any real expression of popular power, of democratic rights and freedoms, work and labor rights, freedom of information and expression, education and culture, of social life, all attuned to the common good.
These new rich and the old bourgeoisie, They are aspiring to regain power with equivalent purposes, They should be replaced by a Democratic State of Workers and People, through the revolutionary struggle of the salaried class, Working Pro, the popular sectors, peasants and intellectuals committed.
It is essential for the autonomous reorganization, social and political, workers and the people; enhance the capacity of mobilization around the workers' demands and popular, the defense of human rights and democratic, and national sovereignty against imperialist powers and interests that the country negotiate with the bureaucracy and capital. A task that we tackle from building Marea Socialista as a political reference in the unit class and joint resistance to the crisis caused by the embezzlers, exploiters and semi-colonial appetites that threaten Venezuelan resources.
Crime and impunity have direct perpetrators and masterminds instruments, policy makers. The latter can not investigate and punish all first because they are part of the same frame at different levels. If we require state agencies to assume the duties imposed on them by the Constitution, It is to locate them and force them to, from the popular and citizen action, aimed at curbing the excesses, but without expectation of amendment who they have adopted the role of servers in a military-bureaucratic caste oppressing, such an exploiter class as classical bourgeoisie who dispute them control. If we do not change we as a people, it has no other destiny to submit to conditions even worse degeneration.
For now, versus what we are witnessing and suffering right now, we have to revive the capacity for indignation; we have to raise the angry voices and plant us in protest, Organizing and reactivating fearlessly independent comptroller exercise of citizenship itself, to defend ourselves from the rants and abuses of rogue state apparatus. organic and mobilized the democratic unity in defense of our human rights and is necessary, and create from there the correlation of popular forces, conscious and interests, which it is required for the important changes that can only be achieved with a new revolution in Venezuela.
reproduced from International Socialist League | 4.7.2019
