Venezuela probes 97 security troops for torture

[Bacchus4.0]

http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-probes-97-security-troops-torture-220448854.html



Caracas (AFP) - Venezuela is investigating nearly 100 armed forces and police staff for alleged torture during more than two months of ongoing deadly anti-government protests, authorities said Sunday.

The military's strategic command chief Vladimir Padrino admitted that security forces had committed "excesses" in recent days.

"We are able to say that 97 are being investigated by prosecutors for cruelty, for torture," he told Venevision television.

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President Nicolas Maduro's leftist elected government, with its heavily state-led economy, has blamed the United States, Colombian conservatives and Venezuelan "fascists" for the toughest opposition actions it has faced.

Nearly daily protests began in early February against rampant street crime, soaring inflation, poor job prospects and shortages of such essential goods as milk and toilet paper.

[MADem]

1. Looks like the government is backtracking.

Gee, if it's all "America's fault" then why would they investigate their own people? Wonder how many of those abusive GNB members have Cuban accents?

I guess they're afraid. They should be--they're dead wrong, and the government AND the military are corrupt as hell.

[Mika]

10. That's right. Castro did it.

Thank you for never failing to provide some humor in this forum.

[MADem]

13. If you don't think Raul is sweating bullets trying to prop up Maduro, you know nothing.

His regime is absolutely dependent on free oil from VZ. Without it, he's Castro-ated.



They're all just imagining things, this is a case of pure delusion, isn't it funny, how all these people have the same idea...yeah, that's the ticket!!


indeed...keep whistling in the dark!

[RobertEarl]

2. Torture? Gawd damn them!!

Meanwhile, back in the US, the senate is holding back on the report of our CIA torturing People. Damn them all!!

When is bush going to jail? Any idea, Bac?

[Marksman_91]

3. I think you missed the title of this forum: this is the LATIN AMERICA forum

If you wish to talk about US affairs, take them somewhere else

[Judi Lynn]

4. The torture by this government goes back so much farther than most US'ians know.

Really creepy seeing information bits surfacing as they get illuminated through F.O.I.A. as time allows, isn't it?

How about the police chief of Gary, Indiana, who had his torture equipment brought to him in diplomatic pouches in Uruguay and in Brazil during Richard Nixon's reign of terror and criminality, Dan Mitrione, who went to work for the CIA during Dwight Eisenhower.

[IronGate]

6. Why is it that you keep refering to events that happened 40-50 years ago?

Why not comment on the current thread instead of trying to divert and deflect?

This is actually good for the Maduro govt, they're willing to investigate criminal acts done by govt. agents.

[Zorro]

7. It's very simple

LLLL hates the USA.

[IronGate]

8. Reading her posts has led me to that conclusion.

[Mika]

11. You're repeating GOP memes again?

Simple is right.

[Bacchus4.0]

15. yep, since there is absolutely no other reason to be a chavista

given their miserably corrupt oppressive adminstration, and when there are much better examples of effective left leaning governments in Chile, Brazil, and Peru.

[MADem]

14. Because it's easier to say "Look over there" than answer the charges of GNB abuse/violence.

There is no defense for what the GNB is doing to the protesters. They're killing VZ citizens, and Cubans are helping the GNB do it.



This 'probe' is pure lip service by Maduro. He's trying to mollify his neighbors, some of whom are starting to give him the stink-eye, and he's just trying to hang on to power. If I were him, I'd worry less about his right flank (which is still disorganized and fragmented, the only thing they agree on is that they don't like the present situation); I'd worry far more about his 'friends' on the left.

Even other nations in the region are starting to put some distance between them and Maduro--no one likes a dictator (cough...a "Democratically elected leader with absolute power of decree&quot who shoots and kills students in the street.

[Bacchus4.0]

16. "no one likes a dictator (...) who shoots and kills students in the street

And the Ven government repression has the full support and participation of Cuba.

[MADem]

17. The GNB is getting "some extra special sauce" courtesy of tacticians on loan from Raul.

Those are Cuban accents giving the orders to fire.

Gotta wonder what's up wit' that!!!

[Bacchus4.0]

18. yep, been hearing that about the Cubans being placed among the national guard n/t

[IronGate]

5. And this has what to do with the title of the thread?

Why are you trying to jack the thread?

This is about the abusive tactics of some Venezuelan govt agents, not about the US Senate, nor the CIA.
Try to stick to the topic at hand if you would.

[Bacchus4.0]

9. yep, abuses by the Venezuela security forces and government is the topic n/t

[Mika]

12. Evidently, you don't hang around this forum much.

Sticking to the topic is really not done in the way you want it. Others here, both pro and con - on just about any LatAm topic, provide context and background.

Stick around and you'll routinely find out that Castro is behind all of it.