Jorge Rodríguez on media corporations: They try to sow whatever lies they may

Published at: 19/02/2024 03:43 PM

This Monday, February 19, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, denounced how the media and large corporations “manage to cartel to try to sow whatever lies”, referring to the case of the opposition activist Rocío San Miguel, who is being held for allegedly being involved in the operations of the “White Bracelet” magnicidal plan.

In that regard, Rodríguez specified that if anyone knew about forced disappearances, it was him, remembering his father Jorge Rodríguez. “My father was forcibly disappeared three times, it was not known where he was, subjected to such cruel torture that the third time he was murdered, that is a forced disappearance.”

In addition, he referred to other cases in the Fourth Republic in which four thousand Venezuelans were victims of forced disappearance and that, as of today, family members still do not know about them. “This is a forced disappearance, thousands of Venezuelans who were killed and murdered on February 27 and 28, 1989 and were buried in the mass graves of the plague in the General Cemetery of the South and many people still don't know where their relatives are,” he said.

For this reason, he indicated that “if there are Venezuelans of whom the Public Ministry, the Attorney General's Office, has sufficient evidence to proceed in accordance with what is established in the Venezuelan criminal code, that is a judicial process.”

In turn, referring to cases such as that of Rocío San Miguel, he recalled that the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, reported “within 72 hours, as established by law, about the situation of Venezuelans who are engaged in serious acts of violence, coup d'etat and assassination.”

“What happens is that since they feel with the power of large media corporations, they believe that they will always get away with events as big as those that were committed (...) here is what a judicial process is taking place within the margins established by the Constitution and respect for human rights around the world,” he said.

Mazo News Team