“What’s wrong with the world that doesn’t call the dictator by name?” The iron diplomatic defense of Nicolás Maduro initiated by the Brazilian president, Lula da Silva, has marked the presentation of the report of the Casla Institute on crimes against humanity that are committed in Venezuela.
“It is not only the International Criminal Court that is investigating Nicolás Maduro,” said Tamara Suju, executive director of the institute and human rights activist, who added to the investigations the reports of the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, vehemently assured. Volker Türk, and from the previous one, Michelle Bachelet. Also the pronouncements of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) and the UN Fact-Finding Mission, among others.
“I feel outraged,” insisted Suju, who had the support of Felipe González during her presentation “at a crucial moment for Venezuela.”
And it is that the impact of da Silva’s endorsement, which has added to the whitening of the Chavista leader initiated by the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, has shaken a good part of the Americas. Lula assured that a “constructed narrative” has been raised against his Venezuelan ally and that “a new narrative remains to be built to turn this game around and we can win definitively. Our adversaries will have to apologize.”
“Maduro is responsible for crimes against humanity, I will never support the money laundering operation,” González counterattacked during his speech. The other former president of the socialist government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, serves as Maduro’s main ally in Europe and one of the great guarantors of this whitening.
The testimonies provided by the Casla Institute to the ICC reflect how torture is applied systematically not only at the headquarters of the General Directorate of Criminal Counterintelligence (Dgcim) and the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin), but also in clandestine detention centers .
“There was so much torture that I suffered that I wanted to die,” confessed one of the tortured in the audiovisual document that accompanies the report. “I was hanging from a beam on the ceiling for six days. They pulled out my toenails, they suffocated me with plastic bags containing insecticide, they burned my skin, they drenched me with cold water all morning,” added the same victim.
The torture documented for years is only a part of the museum of the horror of the Bolivarian revolution: electric shocks all over the body, especially in the intimate areas; extraction of dental pieces; foot cuts while hanging; fractures in the face to create deformations; naked and hooded crawls through wooded areas, including cliffs; mock executions, including Russian roulette or drowning with bags or in water tanks, among many others.
Most of the victims of sexual violence are male soldiers, 70%. “It is the message that is sent to the Armed Forces,” said Suju, who was legally harassed in Spain by Nicolasito Maduro, the president’s son. Defended by the office of Baltasar Garzón, Nicolás Maduro Guerra accused Suju of insults and slander.
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