-Governor Jose Vielma Mora (PSUV - Governor of Tachira)
Early April, the Venezuelan Army was sent into Tachira State to retake the city of San Cristobal, support the National Guard and to dismantle Guarimbas erected in the city of San Cristobal. More specifically, the they cleaned up the barricades in avenues Carabobo, Ferrero Tamayo and Espana. It makes a lot of sense for the Army to dismantle the barricades, because regualr people tried to and some of them got shot and killed for exercising their consitutional right to freedom of movement (see article 50 of the Venezuelan Consitution 1999)
The City of San Cristobal was held under internal siege by barricades and violent groups opposed to the PSUV government since February 12. It's has been like this until recently becuase the mayor of the city Daniel Ceballos not only allowed it, but ordered the building of the barricades. An amparo order was filed in the First Instance Court on Tachia where it was sent to the Consitutional Branch of the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas. On Mid-march the constitutional branch ordered the opposition mayors to use whatever means legally necessary to dismantle and prevent guarimbas in their jurisdiction. They're now sitting in prison.
Here's something of interest:
The mayor of San Cristobal, Daniel Ceballos of the opposition Popular Will party, was removed from office and sentenced last week to 12 months in prison for failing to order the removal of the barricades.
Venezuela's Supreme Court ruled that Mr Ceballos had not only failed to guarantee public order but had lent his support to groups engaging in violent protests.
You can read the actual article here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-26815745
Now the real reason why they are now in prison is because they were held in contempt of court for being not in compliance of Writ of Amparo. It was not a summary trial in a dictatorship sense, it's a different judicial system.
Venezuela's legal system is based on continental law, not on common law. Many trials are bench trials so there are no jury system. His hearing on the contempt of court case had 12 witnesses from the Public Ministry and the Public Defender, and after the 8 hour bench trial he was found in contemt of court. But it's not just any contempt of court, it's a contempt of precautionary ampario.
Under section 31 of the Organic Law for the Protection of Constitutional Rights and Guarantees 1988 anyone who derelicts this type of judicial order can be sent to prison from 6 to 15 months.
Businesses, school, and stores were not open due to the blockades by these extreme opposition groups. Hopefully, the city can return to normal despite the over the month long disruption. At the same time the CNE is planning new elections since the two mayors are in absolute absense in their time in prison.
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In other news related to the Guarimba Insurrection of 2014 40 people are now dead, mostly related to the barricades. The 39th death was on of particualr interest: Makeshift mortars.
These types of mortars are being used by the guarimbos. What they do is that they use them using plastic or metal, put a firework rocket in it. Light it up, aim, and watch as the fireworks launch and explode.
There are a few examples of those weapons in action on YouTube, such as the excellent video/music documentary from opposition-aligned website Confidential Report.
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"Here, we will stay here as long as necessary." Santa Fe (Caracas) March 26, 2010
These weapons if aimed properly can cause injuries to the target and they've been used more nowadays by the violent groups.
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Now the segment where the battle truly begins on the highway is where it's important as it is the the same makeshift mortars that the person I'm about to talk about.
The 33 year old Italian-Venezuelan, Roberto Annese, was killed by his own weapon when a firework blew apart his mortar on his chest. I first found this out from la iguana YouTube channel (which is connected to VTV's program Falling and Running, a political analysis show)
Firing from this form is what killed Roberto Annese
Now that version does include the gory result of what happened after the explosion, but the link is in the description section of the video.
And here are a few articles about it. Note that the incident occured in the State of Zulia.
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(The prisoners tried to escape in an armored van) Zulia: Autopsy confirms that Robert Annese died from shock caused by explosives
A citizen identified as Robert Annese, 33, died early yesterday in the vicinity of urbanization The Orangery, north of Maracaibo, allegedly while handling an explosive device, on the roof of the residence 15J -1-11 - which exploded and caused injuries to the chest and other body areas.
The victim would be the first in Zulia under fascist violence that has sparked the Venezuelan right since last February. Removal of the corpse officials conducted the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC), accompanied by members of the Public Ministry and the Bolivarian Police Corps of Zulia (Cbpez) around 7:00 am. Yesterday, the Minister for the Interior, Justice and Peace, Miguel Rodriguez Torres, said the citizen's death was due the explosion of a mortar. "What was done in the chest was a huge hole created by the explosion of the tube and mortar obviously seen that was not a shot," he told a TV channel. "Forensic report and the autopsy results suggest that the cause of death was a shock of high impact explosive homemade at upper right chest.
The removal of a piece of elongated material, another piece of cardboard and a piece of metal 5 mm thick 8.9 in diameter with a weight of 300 grams which we presume was achieved is a chip or part of the tube used to fire these fires converted into explosive pyrotechnic "Rodriguez Torres. added, "are trying to manipulate some media saying it was a student which is false.
When the boy dies (...) six more people move the body of the crime scene and try to change everything. "
These people then tried to flee. "friends" and family Annese not want to recognize the cause of death Annese and officials blamed Cbpez as the cause of death of young. Annese studied at Wentworth Military College in Missouri, United States and was a cousin of the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Maracaibo, Luigi Annese. State authorities repudiated the violence.
So did the governor of Zulia, Francisco Arias Cárdenas.
While the mayor Eveling Trejo, through the social network, stated: "All our support for the families of the young Robert Annese.
How long the country is filled with blood of our boys? ". G / B July Yepez Castro, director of the Bolivarian Police Corps Zulia State (Cpbez), at a press conference, said that after the fact, in The Orangery were arrested six people who accompany Annese minutes before death and were inside a Ford Explorer armored 2004 plates VBV95T. Arrested were Mary Esneida Fernández Andrade (22 years), José Urdaneta Rodríguez (22), Douglas Enrique Bracho Corner (27), Jharry Alberth Olivar Charity (22), Marcos Chabero Javier Torres (23) and Fernando Campos Lizardo, (28). Yepez Castro stressed that defendants were seized "gas masks, rolls of barbed wire, rods fireworks, lighters, screwdrivers and a cell phone (...) the boys have no background and are not college students.
Regarding Annese reference we have of the fatal victim is not a student. " director Cpbez officials stressed that the 15 installed in the area "reported that around 2:00 am were being besieged by a strongly group of people who were attacking the checkpoint with Molotov cocktails, stones, bottles and mortar.
It is virtually impossible from that place where the officers were (using nonlethal weapons) may have reached the deceased and the height where he was. " the Public Ministry, through a press release, said it has started research related to the death of Annese.
It was learned that the investigation will be led by the prosecutor 11th of Zulia, Lisbeth Dávila. Finally, Minister Rodríguez Torres made a call to the public was to disengage from these acts."
"We are children of the same country, so the call is for parents to supervise their children some linked with violent groups," he said.
http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n248086.html
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Now here's the version form the Panorama newspaper:
Robert Annese have died after mortar exploded: unofficial
Robert Annese, who died early this Saturday at The Orangery urbanization, have died after a mortar explode amid defending a barricade occurred at 4:45 am in the north of Maracaibo.
Information is unofficial in nature and expected to be confirmed within hours by the authorities.
Another version is that he was shot in the chest when he was on the roof of a house defending a barricade before the arrival of troops from the Bolivarian Police in Zulia State.
Witnesses have said Annese would have been shot by members of the Police of Zulia state, but will the authorities to determine what happened. Friends and relatives indicated in the morgue of Maracaibo, the version of the mortar is claiming the police were in place, but it is "false".
The body presented a deep wound in the chest. He was hooded. The site also noted a mortar and several homemade Molotov cocktails.
"That's what they say, but it is not true. He was killed after being shot in the chest," a close friend outside the city medical examiner.
Another relative said the following:. "Roberto was on the roof of one of the houses defending a barricade when committing the police arrived, was there when they started to face and shot him in the chest then arrested five students took the Police Headquarters. "
The governor of Zulia state, Francisco Arias Cárdenas, also spoke and wrote about what happened through his twitter account that "refers Commander @ CPBEZ death of a person by explosion of a device Justice must act. promptly and truth. zuliano The people want to live in peace and tranquility. Stop Violence God! # ZuliaTerritorioDePaz ".
Annese was divorced and leaves a child of eight.
Source: http://panorama.com.ve/portal/app/push/noticia106277.php
Now six people who was with Roberto is now arrested and now being questioned by SEBIN, because the offense has a political motive.
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Remand for the six detainees related to the death of Robert Annese
4/1/2014
The court hearing the case on the death of Robert Annese on Monday night orderd remand to the six people who were arrested last Saturday and ordered the arrest order be executed by the at the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), judicial sources said.
Mary Esneida Fernandez (22), José Urdaneta Rodríguez (22), Douglas Enrique Bracho Corner (27) Jharry Olivar Charity (22), Mark Javier Chaberro Torres (23), and Luzardo and Fernando Campos (28) have accused of conspiracy offenses, public incitement and possession of incendiary devices.
Yesterday around 11:00 AM the detainees were transferred to SEBIN under tight security.
According to authorities, Annese died when a mortar he was using exploded Saturday.
Source :http://www.aporrea.org/ddhh/n248228.html
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