Campesino Leader Assassinated in Carabobo State, Authorities Blame Landowners

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Campesino Leader Assassinated in Carabobo State, Authorities Blame Landowners
By Lucas Koerner

Caracas, June 16, 2015 (venezuelanalysis.com) - Venezuelan campesino leader Roberto Carrera was shot dead in northwestern Carabobo State on Saturday. He is the latest victim of assassins hired by large landowners to put down demands for agrarian reform, according to national authorities.

The 36-year champion of campesino land rights died Saturday morning after being shot three times in the back from a pickup truck outside his mother's house in the municipality of Los Guayos.

Carrera, a founding member of the National Political Council of the leftwing political party REDES and a recently named representative to Presidential Campesino Council, fought tirelessly for the redistribution of idle land under Venezuela's revolutionary Land Law.

According to Juan Barreto, national spokesman for REDES, Carrera was assassinated for exposing big landowners unwilling to comply with national land reform statutes.

"This viciously murdered leader was denouncing the landowners of Carabobo, those land hoarders, (and) together with a group of campesinos, Carrera was threatened with death for merely denouncing these killers."

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2. Asks Carabobo speed networks in investigating the assassination of peasant leader Roberto Carrera

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Asks Carabobo speed networks in investigating the assassination of peasant leader Roberto Carrera

Posted By: CRBZ1 Posted date: June 16, 2015 In: National , Uncategorized


Jaime Torres, regional spokesman called speed networks in the investigations into the assassination of peasant leader Roberto Carrera, while expressing his frustration over the loss of a representative of the Presidential Council Campesino in Carabobo state, "a person at all times accompanied his comrades in the struggle, until the day he died. "

In this regard, also councilor of Valencia in company of militants who attended the funeral procession where he was given a Christian burial to the assassinated leader, called the Body of Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations and the corresponding judicial body the death of Roberto Carrera clarification not only to do justice but to prevent the killings and murder are installed as a way of doing politics in the state of Carabobo. "

"The way he was killed and his struggles against landlords and landowners groups Libertador municipality make suppose a contract killing or killings, since it had been repeatedly threatened with death," noted Torres.

The spokesman said that "swear by the organs of justice, so we urge the public prosecutor to investigate the case immediately and is resolved by applying the full weight of the law those responsible. We know the efficiency of the state in cases like the murder of Monica Spears, for example; As we demand speed for this son of the people that his life was cut short by the fact confront the gangs that stole land in the past and even today in open violation of the laws insist keep unproductive "he said.

Finally, we thank the gestures of solidarity received by the member parties of the Great Patriotic Pole "Simon Bolivar" by revolutionary militancy in general by the people of Carabobo forcefully condemns this cowardly assassination, concluded Jaime Torres.

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