The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, reported that the people who misinformed about the death of the opposition leader Edwin Santos will be summoned by the Scientific Criminal and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC).
“All those who said: ‘there are witnesses who saw him being kidnapped’ will be summoned to the CICPC; Well, they are going to have to bring witnesses because you cannot happily say ‘here there are witnesses’ and it is a lie,” the Minister of Interior Relations, Justice and Peace also emphasized this Wednesday during broadcast No. 501 of his program Con El Mazo Dando. .
Cabello assured that the false statements of some opposition sectors in relation to the death of Santos “is a manipulation so that the world believes that here in Venezuela we are murdering the people of the opposition.”
He pointed out several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), including Provea, “that have their full set of media outlets,” in that sense he asserted that all of them will be called to present the alleged witnesses of the kidnapping narrative against the deceased leader.
“Some say it was the DGCIM, others say it was the Sebin, that it was the National Police; agree (…)”, he lashed out.
The revolutionary leader stated that the opposition’s accusations “is what they would undoubtedly do, and also did when they were government: murder people for political reasons.”
“We win elections for political reasons. “We do not persecute or kill anyone (…) If we have respect for anything, it is human life, we do not wish anything bad on you, we hope that you live long enough to see how the Bolivarian Revolution is consolidated year after year,” he pointed out.
Death of Edwin Santos
Last Friday, the CICPC denounced the media campaign in relation to the death of the opposition political activist, Edwin Alexander Santos Quiñones, and reported that the death occurred as a result of a traffic accident aboard a motorcycle when the unfortunate man was returning from his workplace.
The director of the CICPC, Douglas Rico, detailed in a statement that Santos’ body “was located on the main road via El Nula, adjacent to Puente la Arenosa, Alberto Adriani parish, Fernández Feo municipality, Táchira state, without vital signs as a result of “a traffic accident after the motorcycle he was driving hit a tree.”
