Nicolás Maduro’s regime arrested satirical writers at a wedding attended by prosecutor Tarek Saab amid pandemic

Venezuelan NGO Espacio Público denounced the arrest of the Venezuelan writer and journalist Milagros Mata Gil with her husband, the poet Juan Manuel Munoz, for apparently publishing an article criticizing the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab.

“Conas (National Command against Extortion and Kidnapping) officials arrest journalist Milagros Mata Gil and her husband, writer Juan Manuel Muñoz, for alleged publication of a satirical article in which the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, is mentioned, ”Espacio Público wrote on Twitter.

This association, dedicated to the promotion of freedom of expression, the right to information and social responsibility in the media, added that the lawyer of the two, Juan Marquez, I am going to explain “which will be presented this Thursday, April 1 under the alleged commission of “ incitement to hatred ”“Before the courts.

For his part, the lawyer and activist Gonzalo Himiob pointed out that the legal team of the organization Criminal Forum, of which he is a part and which is dedicated to the defense and promotion of human rights, is “to order and investigating the details of the arrest of writers Milagros Mata Gil and Juan Manuel Muñoz“.

“Milagros Mata Gil and Juan Manuel Muñoz, ‘Moriche’, are over 70 years old. The (Organic Code of Criminal Procedure) COPP (Art. 231) prohibits pre-trial detention in any detention center. In the end, they can only be the subject of precautionary measures or house arrest, ”he stressed.

Mata Gil is a member of the Venezuelan Academy of the Spanish Language and author of nearly twenty novels and essays.

The article in question

The former president of Puertos de Anzoátegui, Luis Gómez Veracierta, explained, according to the newspaper As such, that the arrest of the writers This allegedly happened after Mata Gil posted a post on her Facebook account about a wedding. held at the Club Sirio in Puerto La Cruz at the end of February, which brought together more than 800 people without maintaining any type of protocol due to the coronavirus, among which the Attorney General Tarek William Saab.

The newspaper A glance, Anzoátegui, added that the letter it would have been satirical and it was called “Deadly Party”. It mentions both Tarek William Saab and his mother, both from El Tigre and members of the Muslim community.

In the article in question, Mata Gil described the controversial wedding attended by more than 800 guests and a staff of 200, beautiful dresses, burqas, expensive jewelry and perfumes, a caravan of Christians and Muslims, the absence of any kind of pork ham and, above all, the presence of Saab and his mother Alía, described as ” stars ”of the event.

After explaining how the party was, novelist highlighted possible cause of COVID-19 outbreak which now has more than 600 cases in the region, referring to the wedding planner, who was already suffering from symptoms of the disease, but was preparing to work because “she would not reject an alleged contract of more than six figures in dollars”.

As such reported that the wedding video went viral on Twitter on March 22. There you see dozens of people dancing without respecting social distancing.

Full text by Mata Gil

I. The point is that the desire for social representation of the newly dressed is as great as their narcissism, a variant of stupidity. Then, sent and received 800 invitations. They hired 200 people for the management of catering, bar and service, bailiffs, security, bodyguards, bailiffs, decorators. And that’s not to mention the outside staff associated with the guests at the gargantuan event.

II. They say the wedding planner, a well-known businesswoman, had symptoms of COVID, but was unwilling to lose a six-figure high dollar contract. The aim was to prepare the Syrian Club in Dairy for the celebration of a double marriage. The photos circulate there. Brides in immaculate white and wide skirts. Everything very classic. Ladies jewelry who can almost smell the perfume and the like, in closed tunics with gold accents and burqas, who can almost smell the scent. And all this without a mask. And everything is kissed. No social isolation. Tours of appetizers and sweets of the rich and exquisite Arabic variety. Eat and drink, then we die. Carpe diem and all the epicureanism of this breed. The party was a success. And more than the brides, the stars were, they say, Tarek Saab and his mother Alía.

III. From El Tigre they went in a merry caravan. Muslims and Christians well on the way. Of course, no ham. Nothing that even smelled of pork. First of all, food hygiene according to the Prophet.

A week or two later, the epidemic began which collapsed clinics and hospitals in Barcelona and Puerto La Cruz and surrounding towns. 600 infected and more. Some dead. The wedding guests and their family members, then their employees and the family members of the employees. The planner, husband and all staff hired for the service and family and friends. They said the Prosecutor himself was infected, but given his fanciful investigations, maybe not.

IV. There was a time when the Arab colony was modest. They enjoyed their winnings, yes. But without ostentation. Their new and unbridled wealth, inserted in the murky and voraginous channel of business with this mismanagement, has made them slide towards the superficiality of demonstrable and demonstrable luxury. Towards obscenity and the secret pursuit of pleasure. Let us not forget the question of agreed suicides. Decadence. Decadence. And it is still missing. But for this they paid a certain consequence.

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