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Qualified by human rights organizations as a "instrument of political persecution", the intelligence service of the government of Nicolás Maduroknown under the name of SEBIN, orders the offensive against Venezuelan parliamentarians accused of the failure of the military uprising led by the leader of the opposition Juan Guaidó.
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The organization has been denounced by NGOs and human rights organizations for arbitrary detentions, torture and even homicide.
What is the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service?
It was created on June 1, 2010 by the president of the time Venezuela Hugo Chávez replaces the Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP). The president, who died in 2013, promised that it would be "vital" against insecurity.
Last Wednesday, SEBIN agents arrested in a cinematic way the Vice President of the opposition majority, Edgar Zambrano. The operation was aimed at the rebellion led on April 30 by Guaidó, recognized as president of Venezuela by half a hundred countries.
They intercepted his truck in Caracas and towed him with a crane before he refused to surrender. Nine other lawmakers are prosecuted for the rebellion.
On January 13, in a puzzling incident, organizers arrested Guaidó for an hour while he was traveling to an event. After the release, Maduro said that they were "traitors" at the service of a "media show". Four agents were fired.
SEBIN was also involved in detaining journalists like the French Pierre Caillé and Baptiste des Monstiers or the German Billy Six, already at liberty.
According to its statutes, The main badignment of the SEBIN is to "carry out intelligence and counterintelligence activities for the neutralization of actual or potential threats to the state ".
His area of influence includes the fight against drugs and organized crime.
However, since its inception "has been an instrument of persecution by political motives"Gonzalo Himiob, director of the NGO Foro Penal, told AFP, which has 857" political prisoners "in Venezuela.
During the 2014 and 2017 demonstrations, which resulted in 170 deaths, the SEBIN dungeons were the main destination protesters arrested.
Your number of agents is confidential. The NGO A Window to Freedom, a defender of the rights of prisoners, believes that it has 2,000 employees between the police and the administrative staff.
The documents of the vice-presidency, to which it is attributed, established as line of action of the entity "the continuity" of the "Bolivarian revolution".
Although the number of agents at its disposal is confidential, it is estimated that the SEBIN has about 2,000 police and administrative staff. / AFP
On the same day of the unsuccessful insurgency, Maduro announced that General Gustavo Gonzalez Lopez – approved by Washington – was delivering SEBIN's speech. I had already done it between 2014 and 2018.
Cristopher Figuera, in office since October 31, participated in the rebellion and defected. The socialist leader calls him a "mole" of the CIA.
The end of the previous stage of González López was marked by the death, on October 8, of opposition counselor Fernando Albán, stopped by the explosion of drones loaded with explosives under the act chaired by Maduro.
According to the government, Albán has committed suicide launch the tenth floor of SEBIN's general management; for the opposition, he was thrown after being dead during an interrogation.
A hell on earth
Located in Caracas, L & # 39; Axial it is the operational headquarters and the largest detention center of SEBIN. "It was hell"Ex-activist Villca Fernández, imprisoned for two and a half years, told the press.
Designed in 1956 as a shopping center, with a five-star hotel and a heliport, it is a monumental pyramidal building built on a hill. The project was exposed to Museum of Modern Art New York (MOMA).
A group of relatives of persons deprived of their liberty gathered around the neighborhood "El Helicoide", headquarters of the Bolivian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN). / EFE
But the works were paralyzed in 1961. After decades of neglect, DISIP settled there in 1986.
"A shopping center turned into prison," told AFP Carlos Nieto, director of Una Ventana at Libertad.
According to this NGO, at the height of the 2017 protests in El Helicoide, there were 340 detainees in cells, in a place that can accommodate up to 80 people.
Nieto denounces acts of torture involving beatings, electric shocks or asphyxiation bags impregnated with insecticide. Rodolfo González, a pilot arrested during the 2014 protests, was hanged there in March 2015.
The government that denies having political prisonershas encouraged in recent years the release of dozens of opponents as "reconciliation".
Last year, a group of experts appointed by the Organization of American States (OAS) listed 1,300 "political prisoners" and, since 2013, about 12,000 "arbitrary arrests" in a report guaranteeing that "crimes against humanity" were committed in Venezuela. humanity "since 2014.
Although the government denies its existence, activists and released prisoners have reported that there is in its basement a small detention center with seven cells, called The fall. According to Nieto, the prisoners are subjected to isolation in the sun and at low temperatures.
Source: AFP
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