They denounce that the Maduro regime has established a vast citizen network of spies in Venezuela: “Anyone is suspect”

The Casla Institute in Prague presented its annual report on the situation in Venezuela this Wednesday and denounced that the security forces continue to carry out torture in detentionin a country where citizen network of spies.

“In Venezuela the crimes have not stopped but continue in silence in the face of international public opinion, which apparently believes that Nicolás Maduro has changed and is now friendlier. But no, it’s more criminalsaid Venezuelan dissident lawyer Tamara Sujú, executive director of the Casla Institute in Prague, a platform for Latin American studies in the Czech Republic.

The report was presented at a press conference held at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington and it documents, between January 2022 and January 2023, the testimonies of 19 people who suffered different types of torture “. of systematic repression that the authorities of the Venezuelan State carry out for political reasons”.

Sujú called on the international community not to believe “in the game that Venezuela was rigged” and the International Criminal Court to allow the prosecutor to continue the investigation of the Maduro regime for the Crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela, at least, since 2014.

“Let him perform the acts and actions necessary to stop the crimes in Venezuela. Issue the necessary arrest or appearance orders,” said the lawyer, who assured that Maduro “doesn’t care about the sanctions” imposed by the United States.

The Casla Institute report gives details of the “Handbook of special operations of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM)” which applies directly “in the induction, conduct and execution of crimes against humanity”.

The manual, to which the organization had access, explains how a system of intelligence and counterintelligence to spy on all citizens, officers of the armed forces and even the heads of the security forces they suspect, their relatives, friends and acquaintances.

The regime orders the persecution, prosecution and imprisonment of its victims defining different levels of monitoring according to the importance, the rank and the characteristics of the people.

The report also recounts how citizen control is planned through a structure of spies and accusers with which Maduro seeks to try to control social unrest or any signs of dissent generating collective protests.

“Anyone can be considered suspect for the interests of the revolution” and “Any neighbor, without knowing it, can work for the regime”Suju denounced.

All this in Venezuela, a country where 81.5% of the population does not have enough to cover the basic basket and where 53.3% live in extreme povertyremember the report.

And meanwhile, in Caracas and other cities, “one observes an ostentatious and vulgar bubble, with areas full of luxury restaurants, bodegas, shops and nightclubs, expensive and sporty vehicles, latest model armored cars and trucks arriving in fleets, plus all for use by government and senior officers in the armed forces.

The report also denounces the indiscriminate destruction of the ancestral lands of the states of Bolívar and Amazonas, one of the largest lungs in the world, rich mining lands where there is an “active presence” of Russian and Iranian officers or officialswith the aim of “enjoying the wealth by taking advantage of the opening the regime has given them without control”.

In the mining areas, “the state succeeded in displacing small-scale miners and indigenous peoples to control production and distribution at will, and handed over the question of security to the DGCIM and the Armed Forces, as well as to the guerrilla groups like the FARC and the ELN.

(With information from EFE)

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