"Smell of Freedom": the message that a Venezuelan official placed on his WhatsApp and for which he is persecuted by the dictatorship

As the number of officers who turn their backs on Nicolás Maduro increases, the persecution of the Chavist dictatorship against those who wish to defect is becoming greater. Even against those who express a sort of criticism of the regime.

This Wednesday the journalist Vladimir Kislinger denounced a new case of persecution in the dictatorship. As indicated in your Twitter account, an official of the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC), whose identity has not been revealed placed in your WhatsApp's profile the phrase "smell of freedom".

"Without imagining the consequences that would have if one lived in a dictatorship and within the framework of visible restrictions to the freedom of expression"he said.

The reporter accompanied the complaint of an image of the file published by the authorities of the CICPC of the State of Carabobo and signed by Wilson Antonio Rivera.

"An administrative record and an investigation opened by the Commissioner and responsible for the killings of Carabobo, Wilson Rivera, are part of a series of actions violating human rights and limiting any act exposing the reality or the aspirations of Venezuelans, "denounced. Kislinger

He also explained that "a contact from the government" was the one who sent the evidence "to the representatives of Maduro, who took quick action".

Since Jan. 23, when Juan Guaidó badumed the interim presidency of Venezuela, the Maduro dictatorship has intensified repression and persecution against the population, the opposition and all security officials and agents trying to defection.

More than a thousand army officers fled the country, ignoring the dictator, and have largely fled to Colombia and Brazil. Others, however, did not suffer the same fate when they were intercepted by army soldiers, or even by members of the Chavist groups or guerrilla groups supporting Maduro.

"I did not imagine seeing so many human atrocities (…) Prisoners were sleeping on the floor, preparing their needs in a water bottle, prisoners who do not receive medical care , tortured prisoners … ", said the young man in uniform, who he worked at the Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM).

Silva showed videos that he was able to record illegally in which he saw police trying to defect imprisoned in small totally isolated cells, beaten, sometimes sick and without access to the most basic needs.

"Freedom for dictatorship seems to be a crime that is paid – at least – by persecution," said Kislinger.