Vasco da Costa, a former political prisoner, suffered a stroke this Sunday, August 7, and his health is delicate. In September 2020, after being released from prison, da Costa, a political scientist and activist of the Venezuelan Nationalist Movement, denounced the “horrible” torture he faced while detained in a military jail
Vasco daCosta, A former political prisoner, he suffered a stroke this Sunday, August 7, and his health is delicate.
The information was disseminated, through Twitter, by the lawyer Tamara Suju, human rights defense attorney, and Executive Director of the Casla Institute.
«My dear friend Vasco da Costa, a former political prisoner and always persecuted, has suffered a massive stroke. He is in a coma. I’m sorry I can’t be with him and his family. I’m sorry I can’t hug him. I ask you to pray for him. Basque, don’t leave us!” Suju said.
#Venezuela. My dear friend #VascoDaCosta, former political prisoner and always persecuted, has suffered a Massive Cerebral Stroke. He is in a coma. I’m sorry I can’t be with him and his family. I’m sorry I can’t hug him. I ask you to pray for him! Basque, don’t leave us! ? TQM friend. pic.twitter.com/zJHWEoS6SW
— Tamara Suju (@TAMARA_SUJU) August 7, 2022
In an audio, Ana María da Costa, Vasco’s sister, asked for prayer for the politically persecuted man and said that after a Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) he is in a coma. “These people tortured him so much, so much, that Vasco’s health, when he left the last time, was not the same,” she said.
In September 2020, after being released from prison, Vasco daCosta, political scientist and activist of the Venezuelan Nationalist Movement, denounced the “horrible” torture he faced while he was detained in a military prison.
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The time in prison, in addition to eye cancer, left him with cellulite that almost cost him a leg and worsening of his hypertension.
He said then that the diseases are not compared to what, he assured, was the trigger: the torture, which he defined as “something brutally frightening.”
He denounced that they took his foot and hit him with a “mandarria” (hammer or iron mallet to insert or remove the bolts in the sides of the ships).
“They beat you, they put me face down in a water well, I almost died, they suffocate you with a bag and they put some kind of spikes on your nipples and they give you electricity, they blew out my whole eye,” he said.
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