Patricia Poleo is a Venezuelan investigative reporter. She has been wrong, but she has also been right a lot, she has very good sources. There is a long interview with her in today’s El Nacional (by subscription only) on the Anderson murder. She has always had good police sources and the Government is blaming the police.
She also has shown to have good connections to this case. Three years ago, she won the Principe de Asturias prize in Spain for her investigative reporting on the Montesinos case. For months she insisted Montesinos, Fujimori’s former Head of Intelligence, was in Venezuela. She even had pictures of the plastic surgery he had here. The Government went as far as holding a press conference to show that the person who had the surgery was a different one. Time proved Poleo right. Montesinos was indeed in Caracas; the Government knew about it and guess who was protecting him? The Guevara brothers, the same ones that are being blamed for Anderson’s death. Here are the highlights of what she said in her interview today.
–Anderson was being pressured. He almost had a fight with a Supreme Court Justice. He threatened Minister Chacon saying that if anyone came and denounced the civilian deaths in the Government’s TV station in the 1992 coup, he would prosecute. He also had a case for corruption involving Diosdado Cabello who did not show up at the funeral.
-Chavez himself publicly said that he talked to Anderson regularly (What a conflict of interest!). Poleo claims in one of those meetings Chavez asked him to “clean up” the April 11th. case by prosecuting those that went to the presidential Palace as people still had the impression that the Government killed opposition protesters. Anderson also suggested that he would have to touch Lucas Rincon in that case. He had said his responsibility was to save Chavez only.
-The Attorney general had told Anderson he had to go to which Anderson said he would do it under ‘economically favorable conditions”. Anderson’s sister said that in this case there was “a lot of money involved”, apparently referring to the blackmail of those that went to the Presidential palace on April 12th. 2002. Anderson himself may not have been involved in this according to Poleo.
-Jesse Chacon is leading the investigation in the Anderson case and the intelligence and investigative police are being bypassed. There was a reward of Bs. 250 million being offered for anyone that captured Gonzalez Gonzalez or Felipe Rodríguez. Dead or alive. Lopez Castillo was confused with them. An informant told her that he heard over the radio cops saying they had seen Gonzalez Gonzalez and were following him.
-She questions that if they suspected Lopez Castillo why follow him? Why not go directly to his house? Se says the cop killed when Lopez Castillo was shot was killed by his partner’s bullet and ballistic tests confirm it. She also says Lopez Castillo’s body was held in custody to manipulate the evidence in the body.
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