The 27th Court of the Ordinary Municipality and Executor of Measures of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas carried out an inspection of the facilities of the Lagunita Country Club (El Hatillo, Miranda), to record a reported situation with a member who suffers from the autism spectrum.
The inspection was reflected in file AP31-FS-2025-008196, explained lawyer Juan Ernesto Garantón, who added that said diligence is the first step for future judicial actions “for discrimination and arbitrariness against Jaime Alfredo Cárdenas.”
Garantón explained that the directors of the Lagunita Country Club prohibited Jaime Alfredo Cárdenas from entering the stable facilities with two equines of the Mini Horse breed and two assistance dogs, animals with which this person mitigates his autistic condition, according to the instructions of the treating doctors.
During the court’s inspection, there was evidence of the existence of free stables within the La Lagunita Country Club Stable, where the Mini Horses of Jaime Alfredo Cárdenas could well be housed.
Likewise, they recorded the entry into the Lagunita Country Club of dogs belonging to other members.
Lawyer Garantón described as “unconstitutional” the actions of the directors of the Lagunita Country Club, which translates into an “obvious violation of the right that (the members) have to use the Club’s facilities, and in flagrant violation of their rights to non-discrimination.” To support this last assertion, Garantón said that recently other members of the club have been allowed new entries of horses to the stables, in which there are a large number of unoccupied stalls, free for the use of whoever needs them.
He stressed that the decision of the club’s directors threatens “the emotional stability” of Jaime Alfredo Cárdenas and his family.
