The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, assured that prosecutor Danilo Anderson “was killed by the extremist right that today takes refuge in Miami”, United States, on the 20th anniversary of the murder of the Venezuelan jurist.
“All the masterminds of the crime fled the country and are taking refuge in Miami,” emphasized the first national leader this Monday. during edition No. 67 of the program With Maduro +.
Maduro considered that “there is still a debt of justice with the murder of Danilo Anderson,” an action that he described as one of the “terrorist acts never before seen in Venezuela.”
He head of state He reproached that some media owners of the time, such as those of Globovisión and El Nacional, tried to “morally assassinate” prosecutor Anderson.
“What Danilo deserves is a tribute from present and future generations for being a brave, upright man who sought justice and who was murdered with terrorist methods never before seen in the country,” he insisted.
The surnames were behind
During the Digital Zone section, the Venezuelan dignitary recalled that on November 18, 2004 he received a phone call with “news that moved us: They killed Danilo, the brave prosecutor (…) We were overcome with shock, pain.”
“It was an act of terrorism, just two months after the victory of the recall referendum, it means that that extreme right for the time, like now, did not respect the rules of the game, did not respect anything,” he emphasized.
He recalled that the perpetrators of the crime were captured, who confessed that they carried out the murder with a remote-controlled bomb.
Maduro stressed that prosecutor Danilo Anderson had the investigations of the April 2002 coup against the government of President Hugo Chávez, for which he was charging and summoning the Prosecutor’s Office “to all those involved in the country’s surnames,” he said.
“Many people close to him and his family told us that he did not believe that he could be murdered, so he took minimal security measures,” he said.
