The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) on Monday denounced the “institutional silence” that exists after two of its militants were killed in less than three months, in the state of Apure, on the border with Colombia, despite the fact that the leaders of the political formation asked the Prosecutor's Office to investigate the events.
“Institutional silence after the assassination of the party activist Juan de Dios Hernández in Apure,” the party wrote on its Twitter account, one week after the death of the member of the formation, who was finalized last Monday, when three months had not been completed since the murder of José Urbina, of the same party, who was killed on 10 January of this year.
Hernández and Urbina were active in the same PCV cell and “were killed in the same population” and “both had denounced mafias and irregularities in their municipalities”.
According to the Secretary General of the Training, Oscar Figuera, in an interview on Radio 1, the Public Prosecutor's Office “has not officially pronounced itself or initiated an investigation into the matter, although, following a sit-in organized by the Party to demand justice in front of the Prosecutor's Office, an official received a delegation of that political organization”.
The deputy of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) assured that the official informed them that “in these cases, investigations were difficult because the designated prosecutors were also at risk”.
The party leader recalled that, in seven years, five militants were killed and one is missing, while “all these crimes against communist cadres remain unpunished.”
The murder of Juan de Dios Hernández had also been denounced by former Chavista MP Juan Francisco García Escalona, who claimed that the militant lost his life at the hands of armed groups operating in the border region.
“I again raise my voice in rejection of the assassination of political leaders in Apure. Juan de Dios Hernández, who was a member of the PCV, was kidnapped and killed by armed groups operating in Puerto Páez, excesses continue on our border. Justice! ”, García Escalona wrote last week on Twitter.
As in the case of Urbina, it is unknown whether Hernández had received any threats because of his status as a member of the PCV or any other reason.
(With information from EFE)
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