Published at: 22/05/2024 09:00 PM

• Seven years ago, on May 20, 2017, the 21-year-old Orlando Figuera was burned and stabbed by an opposition group.
• His perpetrators **** belong to the self-styled “Freedom Fighters” group. This was a pack of guarimberos from the extreme right who committed several acts of blood in the context of the multiple hate crimes and atrocities that took place in May 2017.
• The Freedom Fighters were a gang of gangsters, funded by USAID, who set fire to him, stabbed him and kicked him to death. Orlando died 16 days later. No voice in the OAS has since been raised to condemn such an appalling crime.
  • During those 16 days, at the Domingo Luciani Hospital, Orlando had burns on 54% of his body, multiple injuries and six stab wounds.
• Another victim of the Guarimbas was Pedro Josué Carrillo, a resident of the La Porronera community, Av. Hermann Garmendia, of the Sta. Rosa parish, Iribarren municipality (Barquisimeto), Lara state.
  • His remains were found via Quíbor, at kilometer 20, with signs of torture and burns, a common practice imported from Colombian paramilitarism.
  • According to eyewitnesses, on the afternoon of May 16, he was forced to get hooded into a blue Toyota van, Merú model. The leader of the kidnappers shouted: “Set it up because this is Chavista.”
• On Monday, May 22, Yorman Bervecia Cabezas, 19, also died a victim of guarimberos in the edo. Barinas. He received a bullet impact in the chest that killed him instantly.
• On Monday, May 15, Jorge David Escandon, and Reinaldo Alberto Alvarado, two Policarabobo officials, were ambushed and attacked by snipers on the highway leading to Naguanagua. Jorge David was shot in the head and killed four days later.
• On May 5, Gerardo José Barrera (38 years old), an associate officer of the regional police of the Carabobo state, died after being shot by several guarimberos during the riots in San Joaquín.
• On May 3rd, Armando Cañizales Carrillo was assassinated in Las Mercedes, and a metal meter was extracted from his neck, one of those used in roller conveyor systems. Everything indicates that the Guarimberos used an artisanal firearm.
  • Armando was a young man belonging to the National Orchestra System, who was mortally injured in the cervical region during a blockade caused by factional bands in Las Mercedes, Baruta municipality, Miranda state.
• Those responsible for these events are María Corina Machado, Antonio Ledezma and Leopoldo López, who did not cease in their calls to block streets and invoke the intervention of allied international forces to promote a foreign invasion of Venezuela.

Mazo News Team