Published at: 05/02/2025 09:00 PM

(EL NACIONAL, February 03, 1992)

• In those days, during the opening of the judicial year, the magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, Gonzalo Rodríguez Corro, went beyond the usual rhetoric of speeches to denounce “fainthearted judges and politicians who fall into the temptation of corruption... and I regret the situation of the marginalized classes who do not know that it is more dramatic to be born, sick or die in the current conditions in which they live”.
• On February 3, one day before the Bolivarian insurrection, Eduardo Fernández rubbed the “shameful report on corruption” on his face to the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez (CAP). In which, more than 600 cases of embezzlement and diversion of public funds were recorded in a single year (1992).
• By then, Iván Carratú Molina, Head of the Military House, and CAP's right hand man, appeared in that report directly related to the Turpial Case. The admiral was implicated in this swindling of the nation. Corruption framework over the hiring of the Navy's Communication System.
• On February 3, government repression and flagrant violation of human rights reached the elderly.
• Using the whale and tear gas bombs, Metropolitan Police (PM) agents attacked elderly demonstrators, mostly retired members of the IVSS, to prevent them from reaching the Miraflores Palace.
• It also happened to kidney patients who were suppressed and put in police cages to prevent their just demand for urgent treatment and medicines to alleviate their ailments.
• El Nuevo País, on January 28, 1992, entitled: “If there is a lot of corruption in the Pérez government.” This statement corresponded to the then Attorney General of the Republic, who denied President Pérez's statements when he declared that there was no case of corruption in his government.
• For their part, the magazine ZETA and the newspaper El Nuevo País revealed the lavish train of life carried by the presidential barrier, residing in their luxurious apartments in Manhattan, New York.
• In the complaints, it became clear that Cecilia Matos, in the company of the arms dealer Gardenia Martínez, organized meetings in her mansion in El Marqués, together with the Military High Command, and its members, as uniformed eunuchs, received instructions about the purchase of military equipment.
• The High Command was thus marginalized from the servile role of praetorian guard in the barrage of the president of the republic, as well as an intermediary for all kinds of administrative offenses and offenses.
• Among Matos's well-known million-dollar shelters were the four-story Town House located at number 15, Madison Avenue in New York. A mansion in Colinas de las Mercedes purchased through a company whose shares belonged to him and a beach mansion under construction, with a berth for yachts, tennis court and Olympic swimming pool on Coche Island, edo. New Sparta.
• The existence of encrypted secret accounts in Switzerland, under the acronym “CAPRI” and the misappropriation of resources from the Secret Party, of which 17 million U$D, went to the accounts of the presidential couple, were amply demonstrated.

Mazo News Team