Press release of Anarchist
Network Venezuela on the
Slaughter of 60 people in Uribana´s jail in the state of Lara , Venezuela
Past January 25, a
battalion of the National Guard, SEBIN and other organisms of repression in
charge of the Commando Regional Nº4’s General and the Minister of Penitentiary
Matters, Iris Valera, executed an assault against the Imprisonment Center
Uribana in Lara state, that ended with the massacre of, is estimated, 60
people. According with the complaints of the prisoners’ relatives, the numbers
are believed to be higher since they point at missing people buried within the
penitentiary cells.
The action was justified under the statement “The Government will regain control of the prisons” and by a series of policies that President Chavez and its work cabinet have been introducing. Its objective was to occupy by assault the spaces and wipe out any remains of social articulation on the fringes of the Penitentiary’s Administration assistance. This politic called “Penitentiary Humanization” it’s nothing but a project of disguise of the penitentiary centers of torture and humiliation to try to cover up the grotesque business conceived around the prisoners. For the Bolivarian Government the prisoners are, as well, simple merchandise. Is important to indicate that in their majority, prisons are populated by poor, working-class people, (1) which demonstrates the demagogy and hypocrisy of a State that boats about favoring the poor.
