Venezuela: Peasants Murdered

From: EL NUEVO TOPO <giltapia@igc.org>

May 3, 2008 10:51 Two peasants were murdered on or about April 25, according to the Frente Campesino Ezequiel Zamora. (FNCEZ)

The FNCEZ states: "A group of criminals who hide behind police uniformssilenced the lives of two noted peasants, Fabricio Duglas Ivan Perez Heredia and his brother Engel Alexander Hernesto Perez Heredia. Their bodies were found in the zone of Pavia. Witnesses confirmed that the companeros were transported in a police car shortly before their bodies were found.

The Perez Heredia brothers were sons of companero Ivan Alexander Perez Ortis, a comrade who is committed to the cause of the peasants in the State of Lara and leader of the Alianza Bolviariano Campesina, known as ABC.

The FNCEZ denounces this vile act, which shows how the police corps are infiltrated by elements who are opposed to the revolution and life, who only want to blot out and bury what the revoluton has built.

The crime against Perez Heredia brothers, peasant members of the La Caimana cooperative took place after they had made a bank deposit from the sale of some pigs. They were then kidnapped and murdered. Now an attempt is being made to try to make the encounter with the police an encounter with criminals and the companeros instead of being the victims are turned into the victimizers.

This criminal police act, added to the actions of gangs paid by the landowners (sicarios) have claimed the lives of more than 200 peasants. While the peasaant movement pays with its blood, the criminals and landowners continue without punishment.Those who have not been punished will get no rest until justice is done by peoples power."(translation E. Gilman)