Published at: 07/02/2024 09:00 PM

EL NACIONAL, February 03, 1992:

The report on corruption in Venezuela is shameful (Eduardo Fernández)

• More than 600 cases of corruption recorded in 1992 tarnished the country's political landscape. President Carlos Andrés Pérez must be embarrassed by corruption, the malfunctioning of the Judiciary and the continuing violation of human rights. All of this undermines investor confidence.

Head of the CAP Military House involved in the Turpial case

• Admiral Iván Carratú Molina was linked to this network of corruption over the tender for the Navy's Communication System. Likewise, José Vicente Rangel reported an overprice in hiring German companies to repower V-209 submarines.

EL NACIONAL, February 4, 1992: “REPRESSION ALSO REACHED THE ELDERLY”

• With thrusts, struggles and tear gas bombs, the Metropolitan Police tried to prevent pensioners from the Venezuelan Social Security Institute (IVSS) from reaching the Miraflores Palace.
• “Hopefully you reach our age and don't have to go through this,” the elderly demonstrators told police officers.
• At 10 in the morning, hundreds of elderly people arrived at Urdaneta Avenue, near Santa Capilla. There they were received by the police forces in order to prevent their access to the Miraflores Palace to deliver a list of requests and commitments not fulfilled by the government.

ZETA MAGAZINE, June 26, 1992:

• Cecilia Matos, accompanied by arms dealer Gardenia Martínez, summoned, to her mansion in El Marqués (Caracas), the Military High Command, with their respective wives, to receive instructions on the purchase of war equipment.
• The High Command was thus subordinated to the subservient role of praetorian guard in the barrage of the president of the republic and intermediaries of all kinds of administrative acts and wrongdoing.
• Among the million-dollar shelters, known to Cecilia Matos, are a four-story town house located at 15 Madison Avenue in New York, whose monthly rent was 25,000 U$D. A mansion in Colinas de las Mercedes purchased through a company whose shares belonged to him and a beach mansion under construction with a yacht berth, tennis court and Olympic swimming pool on Isla de Coche, Nueva Esparta state.

THE NEW COUNTRY, January 28, 1992:

Yes, there is a lot of corruption in Pérez's government.

• The statement corresponded to the Attorney General's Office and constituted a denial to President Pérez, when he had recently declared that there were no cases of corruption in his government. In 1990 alone, according to an official bulletin from the Public Ministry, there were six hundred crimes against public money.
• At the opening of the judicial year, the magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, Gonzalo Rodríguez Corro, went beyond the usual rhetoric of speeches to denounce “fainthearted judges and politicians who fall into the temptation of corruption... and lamented the situation of the marginalized classes who do not know that it is more dramatic if they are born, sick or die in the current conditions in which they live”.

Mazo News Team