The text is the result of a rigorous investigation carried out over four years by the researcher Rodolfo Montes de Oca, who relied on hemerographic sources, on the testimonies of victims and the protagonists of a good part of the events that are recounted in the text. book, and that mark the history of the struggles for the recognition of human dignity in the country
As part of the celebration of its 34th anniversary, Provea presented the book “Usual Suspects”, a compilation of ten approaches to the historical background of the Human Rights movement in Venezuela (1936-1999).
The balance of the armed struggle in the sixties, the movement for the amnesty of political prisoners, the first organization of victims of police executions, the presence of the Church in the popular sectors, the support offered by Venezuela to Latin American exiles, the The raid on the “Bigotes” Bar in Sabana Grande, the boycott of Miss Venezuela, the COFAVIC tent in the General Cemetery of the South or the death of an activist, are, in perspective, historical events that are linked through ten chapters that address the antecedents of the movement for human rights in Venezuela.
The text is the result of a rigorous investigation carried out over four years by the researcher Rodolfo Montes de Oca, who relied on hemerographic sources, on the testimonies of victims and the protagonists of a good part of the events that are recounted in the text. book, and that mark the history of the struggles for the recognition of human dignity in the country.
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In the book, the author presents a careful and unprecedented compilation of characters and organizations, which outline a mosaic of events that, with their actions, contributed to forging an important culture of civic resistance, against the abuses of power and the arbitrariness of the State. . The text seeks to connect recent events with past situations that seem to repeat themselves in national development. Usual Suspects is an encyclopedic work from a non-traditional point of view, which seeks to complicate what until now many Venezuelans knew about the history of human rights.
The prologue of Usual Suspects was the work of the prolific and renowned Venezuelan writer Alberto Barrera Tyszka, who highlighted: «Rodolfo Montes de Oca proposes us to investigate ´the incessant tension between the past and the present´ to value and discern history in another way, to build a different story of the process we have lived and the moment we are living».
This book can be purchased in its physical format in future training workshops on memory or in Music for Medicine activities through the exchange of medicines for the benefit of humanitarian organizations such as Acción Solidaria or Prepara Familia.
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