This is one of the saddest posts I have ever written
El Nacional reports that four bodies believed to be those of
the Faddoul brothers were found in the town of Yare
today. Two of the bodies had the T-shirt of the school attended by the brothers…in
later news it has been confirmed that it is indeed the
Faddoul brother’s bodies.
The three Venezuelan-Canadian
kids, ages 12, 13 and 17, were kidnapped with their driver when they were
taken to school on February 23. According to witnesses, the car with the kids
was stopped and then escorted by several
police officers in motorcycle. The 13 year old was said to have a physical
disability. A ransom of 4.5 million
dollars was asked for the release of the kids. The Government of Canada had
contacted and pressured the Venezuelan
government about the case, but said that had received minimal information.
This crime reminds me of last week abduction and immediate
killing of Venezuelan-Italian businessman Filippo Sindoni, the successful
owner of a pasta empire, a TV station and a newspaper. In this case, the car carrying
Sindoni was also stopped by what looked
like Police officers.
So Chacon just said that he hopes that this case is not
given a political bias. But, what is going on, Minister Chacon? How can you
explain those kidnappings? It looks like too many police officers involved in
those cases…and what have you been doing about the personal safety of
Venezuelans all these years? Why so many
kidnappings and killings?
I would also like to get Vice
President José Vicente Rangel’s version for those cases .
This is not a film to “falsify the truth” Mr. Vice
President (1), these horrible kidnapping and killings are for real. This is the
true state of affairs in Venezuela,
where there is no personal safety and where the justice and police system seem
to be in place just to persecute the government political opponents, but not to
protect its citizens.
Jorge Arena
(1) Referring to JVR comments about the film “Secuestro Express”.
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Update note.- Daniel also wrote about the story here
and showed a n image that appeared TODAY in El Nacional. A propaganda
by mayor Juan Barreto to justify the creation of a sort of armed
neighbouring seceurity forces, which in my view further pursues
the militarization of the civil society. Was it bad timing or
Barreto was purposedly exploiting the death
of the Faddoul brothers to promote this new type of popular brigades?
Note that the bodies were found before 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Here is the link to the infamous add.
The Devil's Excrement 
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