A Sad moment for Venezuelan justice

Today a Judge in the city of Maracay, Aragua State has issued a judicial decision against three former Police officers of the Metropolitan Police force in Caracas. The Judge Marjory Calderon handed down sentences of 30 years in jail. Albeit the maximum amount of time permitted by the Venezuelan Constitution under Article 44 subsection 3.

This is further evidence of the lack of justice in Venezuela. The three policemen were held prisoners from 2002 and now in 2009 after infinite appeals and Judges recusing themselves, the Chavista Judge handed down the veredict.

According to Chavistas, trying to reconstruct history in their favour, the three policemen were directly responsible for ordering other policemen to fire upon the Chavista population gathering at Puente Llaguno in Caracas. The time was April 2002, when a civil manifestation of people requesting the outing of Hugo Chavez from the Presidency after a general strike supported by the majority of Venezuelans.

The sad part is that the real shooters are not held accountable. On the contrary Chavez has publicly recognized the shooters as supporting the honor and dignity of the Venezuelan people. So far from the truth.

I will post a few pictures of the shooters at Puente Llaguno in April 2002. Lets remind the people that during that specific time a general protest was called in Venezuela and Chavez at the same time, in order to block Televisions from transmitting the protest feed, ordered a National interest transmission that was previously recorded and ordered the activation of what was called Avila Plan. The Avila Plan was a code name for a plan to militarize the whole city of Caracas, with tanks and whatever force means necessary. What happened was that the military did not recognize Chavez as legitimate President, and was ordered arrested. He was transferred to a military jail in Orchila Island and he himself requested to be flown with his family to Cuba. Shortly thereafter, Pedro Carmona Estanga a leader of the Chamber of Commerces in Venezuela and a group of illed advised Generals, ordered the dissolution of public powers in Venezuela (executive, legislative and judicial) and the celebration of general election in 90 days. Shortly thereafter a General in the State of Aragua started asking himself that Chavez was still the President and that he must return to power. Following the Statement of that General (whose name is General Raul Baduel) military Generals started retracting and to recognize Chavez as legitimate President. He was return to Power as President, and since then has absurdly and ilegitimately exercised power in Venezuela. A military regime with a mask of socialism...