And you got to love Teodoro Petkoff’s comment in yesterday’s Tal Cual about Attorney General/Prosecutor Isaias Rodriguez. Rodriguez gave an interview in local paper Ultimas Noticias, which Petkoff blasts out of the water.
Isaias Rodriguez does his own self-portrait by Teodoro Petkoff
Today Ultimas Noticias publishes a long interview with Isaias Rodriguez. It is difficult to imagine the affable and discreet labor lawyer which we met in Maracay, whose ghoulish poems do not deny a real poetic sensibility, is the same person that involuntarily makes a cruel spoken self-portrait of himself in the popular tabloid.
The reporter asks, with respect to a comment by Isaias about newspaper articles that would violate the presumption of innocence: In the case of the Guevara brothers, doesn’t the presumption of innocence apply? Isaias: “Yes, it does”. Questioned again: “Then, why wasn’t the same observation made when they published articles about the Guevara brothers? Reply: “We have no doubt about that the Guevara brothers are really the material authors of this homicide. That has been absolutely proven”. I don’t want to think that Isaias found his law degree in a box of detergent, but that this is simply a new revolutionary doctrine: It is not a judge who will decide about the guilt or innocence, but the Prosecutor’s office itself.
This office accuses and sentences. Wonderful (Cojonudo for the Spanish speaking audience). The reporter asks, with respect to the doubts about the honorability of murdered Prosecutor Danilo Anderson:
“Have you ever had doubts?” Reply: “The Danilo that I met is a Danilo about whom I have no elements for doubting his honorability, but the investigation is what will determine for me if I can doubt or not his honorability”. They see their faces, but never their hearts. There is one I knew, but maybe there may have been another one that I did not know. If the investigation discovers one different from the one I knew, then, and only then, I will see if I can doubt, even if in this case, in contrasts with that of the Guevara’s, I will presume innocence. His crowning statement:”If I was in her skin (reporter Tamoa Calzadilla, who was pressured to reveal her sources), I would say who gave me the forged document. We have no doubts Isaias, no doubts; you are a true “revolutionary”
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