"… Nobody likes to think, he likes to be given everything thought…" Adolf Hitler.
The latest information on insecurity in Venezuela, available in the media, is the report "Crime as a factor of citizen insecurity", and from there we extract: "… 98% of cases of homicide with firearms… 60 % of the corpses wounded by more than five shots… In 36% of the registered cases the victims are young people between 15 and 29 years… If the trend of the First Semester 2009 continues, there will be some 18,436 homicides in the country at the end of year… Venezuela has an average of 40 deaths a day and 52 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants at the end of 2008… ”(INCOSEC): One murder every 37 minutes.
The sensational projection
In other words, it means that at the end of this year and according to that projection, the rate in Venezuela will be 68 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, which will mean a net increase of 30% with reference to 2008.
This being the case, and maintaining the same relationship and trend, from the rate of 130 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants registered in the capital region according to Roberto Briceño León, we will go to 169 murders per 100,000 inhabitants.
That is, if we venture into the projection and keeping the trends without major modifications, by the end of 2010 in the capital region with an estimated population of 2,163,610, the rate will be 219 murders per 100,000 inhabitants and for the rest of the country, with a population estimated at 28,113,041, without major statistical jumps or peaks, the figure will be 88.4 murders per 100,000; which would yield a total murder equal to or greater than 24,851: One murder every 21 minutes.
At dawn on January 1, 2011, there would be a total of 193,287 murdered if to the accumulated existing today of 150,000 murders in ten years, those that occurred in the last two projected years are added; it means, without a doubt, just 152 days more of daily murders to reach the figure of 200,000 murdered in twelve years of the Bolivarian revolution.
It's just sensation, according to the expert
“… Citizen insecurity and criminal show: the media on the real; the 'urgent and conjunctural' devours the important and transcendental… ”subtitle of point 1.3. of the reflections of the Magna cum Laude UCV, lawyer Keymer Ávila, member of the team of experts who, in addition to being Assistant to the Attorney General of the Republic, advises the government on matters of the National Police.
It states in its in-depth analysis: “… Criminal Policy, instigated by the social communication media, is commonly characterized by the search for symbolic and immediate responses at the expense of human rights… Its objective is to give the population the feeling that it is is doing something… the important thing is the show… The communication companies gave impressive publicity to four cases…: 1) Murder… in the Kennedy sector…; 2) Kidnapping and… murder of the Faddoul brothers and their driver; 3) Assassination… Filipo Sindoni and 4) Assassination of the priest Jorge Piñango… who encouraged the resumption of street actions for political purposes… There the influence that communication companies have on the sensibilities of the masses was evidenced again, using as an instrument to the phenomenon 'insecurity' to handle collective fears… "
“… What did these four cases have in common ?: 1) The repudiation and collective consternation…; 2) Alleged participation of police officers…; 3) That the victims had the power of social claim…; 4) The political intention of the social communication companies to use pain and generalize these events, turning them into a great wave of 'insecurity'… "
"… What was sought with this?… 1) That the government react in a violent and authoritarian manner… 2) Give as much publicity as possible to the deterioration and abuse of the police institution… 3) That the sectors of the middle class… create disorder street… and 4) Take collective fears to the maximum for their political-electoral management… ”(Electronic Journal of Legal Sciences RECJ.06.02.09)
The political line
The blunt statement of the Social Worker who also graduated from the UCV and currently holds the position of Ombudsman, Gabriela del Mar Ramírez, was not a lightness: “… The idea at this moment is, first, to reduce the feeling of insecurity that she has the people and give them tools such as greater training for the police, among other things… ”(Weekly Report, Friday 310709).
This official statement that the problem of insecurity in Venezuela is only a sensation, therefore has, for the purposes, an allegedly technical support and is supported, as we have seen, in a detailed analysis carried out, written and published in February of this year by an academic of the highest university and professional qualifications, who exercises, as we see, among other activities, the position of Assistant to the Attorney General of the Republic.
But there is always a but
For anyone who is the common citizen, expert or not in the field, who intends or tries to understand the inner aspects of the complex and serious problem of insecurity that affects him, his family and the community - whether this is a sensation or not., in front of a supposedly technical text signed by someone with such specially finished university qualifications, although on the one hand it is difficult for him and almost impossible to question the content in its terms, analysis, supports and conclusions; on the other, it is very difficult for him to assimilate it when some factors other than the strictly technical ones are expressly introduced or mixed in the content.
Faced with these initial arguments that we have extracted from the report, that although details of the discursive librettos in the political game may be very valid or validated, or in defense of evidence or manifest incompetence, they can hardly be considered or taken into account outside of that strict scope: The politician. therefore, not in the technical order, since an expert report of any kind, regardless of the high technical qualifications of its author, has to be and must be technical; hence the care that must be taken in terms of the plot schemes on which some criteria or conclusions are intended to be supported.
The report on insecurity is either technical or not, and if it is political, as it seems to be the case, it is not necessarily and can be considered technical. And this we will be able to elucidate, comparing its details with the realities that the citizen lives daily, with those impressive facts of the daily occurrence that welcome him. And there is no other alternative: Faced with political argumentation, counter-argumentation in the same field and sense.
Reasonable doubt
We are not at the end of knowing if the issue or the policy of insecurity in question reveals: a) a secret revolutionary competition with historical ends, or rather, perhaps - perhaps - b) a transposition of terms in a Directed revolutionary action and instead of killing poverty, conditioning the social environment provides the necessary means and mediating a nurtured, conscious and voluntary laissez faire laissez passer, insecurity is promoted on the one hand and, on the other, expressly, is He is letting the poor kill each other - in the image and likeness of what happens among the prison population held in the ergástulas that they have for prisons - in which case, well understood, there is still a lot of corpse to see and much to tell.
Fidel Castro, assuming full responsibilities and derivatives, in more than 612 months of validity of his revolution, in the institutionalized and public places called "El Paredón", under direct or indirect command (via Che Guevara) of the firing squads and at the voice of fire, has killed an approximate total of no less than 20,000 human beings: an average of 32 per month.
The figures of the Venezuelan revolution, except for this revolutionary precedent, have no other in all of Latin American history: In the Hugo Chávez revolution, without anyone to assume responsibilities and derivatives, without “Paredón”, without firing squads, and only distributing individual weapons, distributing and maintaining the supply of ammunition among the affections, relatives, associates, salaried employees and common criminals –and not so common–, in less than a quarter of that time, 144 months counted until 12/31/2010, is on the way to multiplying by ten that record number of shot so far in the hands of Fidel Castro, with an estimated average of 1,342 murdered per month.
And if the technical aspect is the consideration
Since the material subject to observation deals with the subject of criminal investigation police and with a specific objective destined to impose a future and forced assignment of the body of material execution of the operations and police measures destined to the investigation of crimes to the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, is well worth the opportunity to refer to the author of the considered text, some comments that, by the way, being political, however do not seem to be part of the interest of the experts, of the investigation and of the analysis under consideration.
1. The police, independent of the specialty and of the national, regional or local affiliation body, by specific principles and specific norms in force in Venezuela, have been and are assigned to and it is the exclusive function of the executive branch bodies.
2. The Attorney General's Office or Public Ministry is not an organ of the Executive power, in the new constitutional text, an organ of the Moral Power.
3. The actions or acts carried out by the officials attached to the bodies of material execution of the operations and police measures, in whatever situation or circumstance, are not and can never be considered jurisdictional acts.
4. There are very substantial differences between the power for the mission, command, supervision and control of the hierarchical body of assignment of the acting police officer in whatever circumstance, and those powers proper and assigned to one or the other are the bodies that by law are called to the tutelary exercise of and in the activities of these police officers, regardless of their organic affiliation.
5. Unless the current legal framework is totally and absolutely modified, starting with the constitutional text, there is no way that allows the assignment of a Criminal Investigation Police to the Attorney General's Office.
6. The main and most important of the causes that have determined and determine or make up the sustained loss in the capacities of the State to exercise ius puniendi, as we have argued for years in multiple notes –and in the talk requested and given before the Titular prosecutors on Friday, May 23, 2003 - lies precisely in the directed, continuous and sustained overlap of activities and responsibilities, where ultimately the three characteristics of the political and justice system in Venezuela materialize, take shape: a) The avoidance of conflict; b) the law of least effort and c) the absence of accountability.
As is sufficiently supported, the problem of insecurity in Venezuela, despite all the thoughtful approaches, the elaborate reports and the expert opinions of the lawyers and their followers, is something more than a simple sensation.
