The Devil's Excrement

A year
ago, the Chief Head of Homicides of the investigative police (CICPC), the Chief
Prosecutor of the region of Lara and the Governor of Lara state said that Juan
Carlos Sanchez, who was being followed by the police in connection with the
Anderson case, was shot dead when he did not obey the order to leave the hotel
room where he was with his hands up. The police described how Sanchez was being
tracked via his cell phone and followed to the location where he was killed and
in that shooting a cop was also injured. At the time, the cops also said Sanchez
was getting ready to leave the country, had weapons, some C-4, money and a
passport.

His family
argued that this was not true. Sanchez’ car had a GPS protection device that
indicated he never left Caracas and one of those
charged in the case, Juan Guevara, said Sanchez was tortured in Caracas, he could hear
the screams while he was being detained. Guevara happens to be the person that
was also “detained” last year on Nov. 20^th. with the Prosecutor
General confirming it that day, only to deny it later, saying he made a
mistake. Guevara “disappeared” for a few days according to his wife, only to be
detained (again?) in Southwest Venezuela.

Sanchez’
family has charged all along that his death was a “set-up” by the police and
that his body had evidence of torture, which was always denied by the
authorities…until today.

Well, the
Prosecutor General said on a TV interview today that Sanchez’ death was a
“set-up” and that he was killed in order to protect the identity of the main
people behind Anderson’s
asssination. According to this new version by the Prosecutor General, those
behind the explosion thought they had control of the police and may have sent
the cops to simulate Sanchez’ death in a confrontation.

This “new”
version, which seems to have come out of a movie, is made more incredible by
the fact that those that announced and described how the confrontation took
place where high ranking officers of the police, together with the Governor of
the state. Why did they lie? Were they involved? All of these questions are
left now up in the air.

Here is
Petkoff’s take of the same topic in today’s Tal Cuela

Another one from the Prosecutor
General by Teodoro Petkoff

Well Hugo,
this mini reporter believes that it is time to tie up your nutcase before he turns
the Anderson
case into an episode of The Three Stooges. Now Isaias comes out with a version
that Juan Carlos Sanchez was ordered killed by the Guevaras, manipulating the
intelligence police. I don’t know if this is the truth or a lie, but then, what
happens now to the first version, handed out by the National Homicide Chief of
the Investigative Police, the regional prosecutor and none other than Governor
Reyes Reyes, according to which Sanchez died in a confrontation? All those
gentlemen were in cahoots to present what now, according to Isaias, was simply
a set up? If it was set up, these gentlemen did not commit a crime and shouldn’t
Rodriguez the bard, be opening an investigation against them to charge them for
simulating a punishable crime?

Or is he
going to come out and tell us another one of his typical ones, assuring us that
he read “sincerity” in the eyes of all of those officials and that is why he believed
them? On top of that, Isaias should reveal to us how come the Guevaras could so
easily manipulate the “revolutionaries” that directed the intelligence police
at the time and take them to get rid of Juan Carlo Sanchez. Maybe Colonel
Miguel Rodriguez Torres, chief of the intelligence police then, may have
something to tell us about this comic strip.

This entry was posted on November 22, 2005 at 6:35 pm and is filed under Venezuela.