One of the peculiar things of the Chavez administration is how often its members act more as if they were members of the opposition, making charges against the Government, rather than assuming their responsibilities as Government officials.
Case in point are the statements made by Attorney General/Prosecutor Isaias Rodriguez yesterday and today about the role of the police in the Anderson investigation. The “Fiscal General” or “Ministerio Publico” is a combination of the roles played in many countries by both the Attorney General and the Prosecutor. According to Article 285 of the Venezuelan Constitution, the “Fiscal” is in charge of guaranteeing the respect of the rights in all judicial processes, guaranteeing the rule of law and prosecuting all cases.
Thus, when the “Fiscal comes out publicly to say today that “the police are interfering with the investigation in the Anderson case” or “it seems as if the police want to favor those charged with the assassination of Anderson”, who is he talking to? Who is he accusing? He is the person responsible by constitutional mandate for administering justice in Venezuela, he should not be making accusations, and he should be announcing investigations to find who is doing this. Instead, he talks as if a sinister or mysterious force is responsible for blocking the investigation (the opposition?), which is simply ludicrous given that this Government has now been in charge of the investigative police for six years.
Maybe the problem is that the Prosecutors office spends too much time trying to find reasons to charge the opposition with crimes, such as the 400 people who are being charged with rebellion for going to the Presidential Palace on April 11th. and signing the infamous Carmona decree. Of course, they are all well known members of the opposition and the Prosecutor’s office has selectively excluded people like General Lucas Rincon, who said Chávez had resigned, or those like Ivan Rincon, President of the Supreme Court or Governor Yanez of Cojedes state, who either publicly accepted the Carmona Government or even volunteered to lead it.
Instead of denouncing, Isaias Rodriguez should simply do his job, assume his responsibility and realize that the buck stops at his office and nobody else’s. He should be impartially investigating cases and getting rid of the scum in the police forces and in his own office. While he continues to say that the press has condemned Danilo Anderson, he has never explained why he never initiated an investigation before Anderson was killed, on the charges made to his office by banker Maza Tirado that he was being offered a deal by which if he paid US$ 300,000 to a lawyer, his case could be magically dropped by the dead prosecutor.
Meanwhile in Madrid, Judge Garson, who does do his job, has now provided more information on the illegal payments to Chavez’ campaign by Spanish banks (Illegal for them to give it under Spanish law, illegal for Chavez and his party to receive under Venezuelan law). The total is now up to US$ 3.3 million paid to a company managed by Luis Miquilena, converted to Bolivars and deposited in an account at Banco Union. The judge has even provided the number of that account in which only two people could sign: Luis Miquilena and Hugo Chavez. I guess in that case, our distinguished Fiscal can not come out outraged and say that his own office is interfering with the investigation to protect the accused. But that is exactly what is going on.
Oh, the revolution!
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