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THE COFFIN CONTAINING THE REMAINS OF SENATOR LUIS EMIRO ARRIETA WAS REMOVED FROM THE FUNERAL HOME BY THE POLICE, 30 ARRESTED AT THE WAKE

Published at: 31/07/2024 09:00 PM

Digepol commissions took the coffin by burying it in an unknown place

(EL NACIONAL and Latest News, July 29, 1965)

  • The widow of Senator Luis Emiro Arrieta, Trina Arrieta de Arrieta, suffered a nervous breakdown when armed SIFA and Digepol agents forcibly took the coffin of her husband, who had also been a union leader.
  • The coffin, with the remains of the trade unionist, was removed from the funeral home by officers in plain clothes, who arrested friends and family who came to offer their condolences to the widow and her ten orphaned children.
  • Funeral workers were also arrested who tried to prevent the abuses perpetrated inside the chapel of the funeral home La Voluntad de Dios, located on Andrés Bello Avenue.
  • Senator Arrieta, who was arbitrarily detained for two years on April 16, 1963, was at all times denied the medical assistance required to save his life.
  • He was murdered in the cells of the Modelo Prison, a victim of the droplet torture applied by Carlos Andrés Pérez, who prohibited specialized doctors from accessing him.
  • When his relatives succeeded in allowing Raúl Leoni to be treated by qualified doctors, Luis Emiro was clinically dead. He died of mengua at the Peripheral Hospital of Catia.
  • The former senator for the Communist Party had also been the victim of the coup d'etat carried out by Rómulo Betancourt when he outlawed the PCV and MIR, violating the parliamentary inauguration of popularly elected Senators and Deputies, who were declared outlawed and consequently subject to political persecution and State terrorism.
  • Rule of political persecution that was abolished by General Isaías Medina Angarita in 1941, and that Betancourt reinstated to persecute former party partners and clandestine struggle. A stubborn traitor.
  • Luis Emiro Arrieta was from Maracaibo, born in 1910. He served first as a sailor and then as captain of oil tankers and ships. He held the position of senator for the PCV.
  • When he was arbitrarily prosecuted for the alleged crime of rebellion, he declared before the Military Court: “Of all the accusations made to me by Mr. Carlos Andrés Pérez, I can only accept one, and that is that I am a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela, a condition of which I am proud and which I will defend until the last days of my existence...”.

Mazo News Team