Jose Vilas was part of the technical staff of Intevep, PDVSA’s research and development Center until a year ago when he was fired after the strike. He was one of the one thousand employees fired. He was involved in the petition drive for the referendum, leading a collection center in San Antonio de Los Altos, about 15 miles from downtown Caracas up the Panamerican highway, last December. Yesterday he was participating in a protest in the main Avenue in San Antonio. Suddenly the military police started coming forward. Jose went up the street, where he lived as seen in the top picture. Note that it is a street with little houses, purely residential. Jose looked back, kept running and soon after that picture was taken, he was shot by the military police that you see in the backgroung. The next picture shows him dying. Note he even has his backpack on in both pictures. He died soon afterwards. He was 42 and a friend of some of my friends at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research.
(I apologize if these pictures offend anyone. I thought they were a little strong and considered not showing them. But this blog was started as a document of the impunity and the injustice going on in Venezuela and the pictureshave to be part of it.)
The Devil's Excrement 
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