Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Venezuela to investigate if arrested Basques suffered tortures

Xabier Atristain and Juan Carlos Besance declared to police that they had been trained in Venezuela by certain Basque exile, Arturo Cubillas, who was forcibly settled there in the frame of agreements reached by Spain and several Latin American and African countries in the 1980s (others are in Dominican Republic, Cape Verde, etc.)

The arrested reported tortures and even the state-appointed attorney did not sign the police declarations on the face of very evident signs of such abuses.

The interest of Venezuela in this matter is to clarify if there is any truth in the accusations, widely echoed by the Spanish and Latin American Capitalist media that there is some sort of training facility for ETA in the Caribbean country.

Source: Gara[es].

Update: attorney and member of PROVEA (a Venezuelan organization of solidarity with the Basque Country) Marino Alvarado Betancourt, narrates in first person his and Cubillas' legal plea to be investigated, after all the lies that have been thrown against him by, mostly, Spanish media, in a clear attempt to delegitimize the Bolivarian government. Full story at La Haine (in Spanish).

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