Video: Exposure to the OAS of images of torture in the military prisons of the Nicolás Maduro dictatorship with the support of Cuba

This is how military deserters are tortured

"The prisoners are treated as if it were animals, and there is always physical and psychological oppression.". The Venezuelan lieutenant Ronald Alirio Dugarte Silva, who left the regime of Nicolás Maduro, presented to the Organization of American States (OAS) shocking images of torture inflicted by the Chavist dictatorship in military prisons against detainees.

The young people in uniform participated by videoconference at the meeting at which the Executive Director of the Casla Institute and his delegate to the International Criminal Court, Tamara Sujuand the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, denounced the crimes against humanity committed by the regime.

Dugarte testified that he was a member of the Military Counterintelligence Bureau (DGCIM), where he held several positions. "most important, in the investigation division". But it has also served as a police custody "where political prisoners remain."

"I did not imagine seeing so many human atrocities"he said, then gave details of these atrocities: "Prisoners sleep on the ground, preparing their needs in a water bottle, prisoners who do not receive medical services, prisoners tortured. .. ".

The Venezuelan lieutenant badured that he was living "six months of terror" in this area of ​​the DGCIM: "During the six months that I have worked as a guardian, I have helped the prisoners as much as I could, without any manager discovering me, endangering my freedom and life. "

The videos that he showed to the OAS were recorded in a hidden way. As detailed in its history, in all three cases are military. The first is the captain Caguaripano, to whom an officer asks him if he wants to have breakfast. "He refuses because he is not offered support and medical service because he suffered for several days from this condition, was suffering from stomach pains and blood urination." In the recording you can see the inmate carrying a blood cartridge. The officer ignores his claim to call the colonel and closes the door.

The second video shows Colonel Mejías Laya, who "was brutally tortured during his stay in the Investigation Division", his hands tied behind his back and blindfolded, sitting on the floor in a small room. "It lasted like that 30 days"revealed Dugarte.
In the third video, the young man in uniform said that he had gone to the torture chambers: "At that time, they gave me the order to ask the tortured people what they were doing." They felt. " In this room you can see three men: "Colonel Garcia Palomo, citizen Avichela and Colonel Acevedo."

Ronald Alirio Dugarte Silva

Dugarte said that he was only monitoring, and did not have access to the area where the prisoners were tortured, but said that Yes, he could "hear his cries of pain". He also revealed that he knew various torture centers, some "at Fort Tiuna", and others in "clandestine places". Among these clandestine centers, also denounced by Suju, "Those who have only knowledge are the Cuban staff and the collective" Chavez ".

The lieutenant said that these groups are actually more paramilitary, since they are "trained, equipped and armed militarily". "They are in possession of the credentials of the DGCIM, extort money, kidnap, torture and murder".

During his presentation, he also gave details on the Cuban intervention in the Venezuelan armed forces. He argued that During his military training, he was trained both by the Venezuelan army and by the Cuban intelligence militia. perform counterintelligence tasks that prevent enemy spying and counterintelligence activities. "

"I saw with my own eyes how the Cuban intelligence militias carried out joint operations between the Cuban and Venezuelan military to go to the RECIM (military counterintelligence area, capital of the RECIM, island, Guyana, Eastern, Llanos, Occidental, Los Andes), "he added. He stressed for his part that Cuban agents "give orders to the generals who command each RECIM and to each of the badysts". "Always sow hatred against anyone who is against communism."

Dugarte said that he had decided to withdraw after months of terror and said that a prisoner had asked him to show the world what was going on in the regime's prisons. He also acknowledged that the dissatisfaction in the armed forces is very great, but he said: "Many colleagues are scared, they fear that the regime is acting against their loved ones."

The words of Almagro and Suju

Electric shock, asphyxiation and shock

Before the intervention of Lieutenant Dugarte, Luis Almagro and Tamara Suju They gave details of the torture and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Chavez regime.

The Secretary General of the OAS reported that hundreds of people had suffered and suffered "Physical and psychological torture, suffocation and rape". "The application of torture has been used to sow terror and punish dissent and opponents".

He also denounced the systematic use of torture "as a crime against humanity that must be the subject of an investigation" and referred to the Cuban intervention in the various mechanisms of torture and repression.

Suju said that among the victims There are also women and minors.

For his part, he stressed that the first quarter of the year was "the most difficult" in terms of repression of the regime. In this line, he explained that most of the victims were killed during the demonstrations: "FAES and PNB searched for people who demonstrated and executed them in front of their families."

The Executive Director of the Casla Institute said that torture "It was increased by Maduro's desperation."

In the past two months, he said, 40 new cases of torture have been reported. "The most atrocious ones against the military: hanged, lying on the ground, without water or food, brutally searched in their houses, children mbadacred by the FAES". He also denounced "family torture, murder by paramilitary groups and enforced disappearances".

According to Dugarte's statement, Suju revealed that the DGCIM was using "clandestine torture centers". "Some houses are seized from drug traffickers, these houses are called houses of torture."

In these centers, one of the new methods of torture is to throw "drugs" at prisoners in areas of the body "where they bleed".

He also denounced the persecution suffered by the journalists: "Some have been kidnapped and threatened with death".

Suju, who pointed out that already there are more than a thousand soldiers who have deserted, announced that these denunciations would be brought next week to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.