THE DAY THAT EVEN THE MINIONS CRIED - IBÉYISE PACHECO

The offices of "investigations" of the 10th floor of the Sebin are the scene of torture. That is the only explanation to the question, why was Alban there ...?
Councilman Fernando Albán had been arrested once by the Sebin about a year ago. Your crime? To be broadcasting by Periscope along with his party colleague, Dinorah Figuera, a protest that claimed the Supreme Court of Justice. The outrage lasted little, but ignited the alarms that work since the dictatorship in Venezuela took off the mask.

After devastating with Voluntad Popular, the onslaught of the regime was directed against Primero Justicia and Fernando was one of its members, very close to Julio Borges, object of obsession of Nicolás Maduro and Jorge Rodríguez. That is why Borges had to take refuge in Colombia without impediment to move to other countries to expose excesses of the gang that illegally retains power in Venezuela.

Fernando Albán convinced his wife and two children that it was prudent for them to stay out of Venezuelan territory. He would continue with his work begun several years ago with the popular community of Catia and his militancy that had led him to be a councilor of the capital. In parallel he maintained his commitment to the church.

The unanimous weeping was for the loss of a good man, murdered with special impudity. Nicolás Maduro, urged to build his story of magnicide that is diluted, that remains in joke and that ridicules him, has been desperate after two months of two drones exploded in an act that he presided over. There is not a single credible evidence or a conclusive testimony, which indicates as responsible neither Colombia nor Julio Borges.

The stratagem has complicated the regime. The grotesque assembly against the deputy Juan Requesens, displayed the miseries of the government. Obliged under drugs to tell a fact that does not mean crime and expose it with underwear scrubbed in foreign faeces to humiliate it, gives dimension of the torturers' appearance. With all this and that, the statements of Requesens could not be incorporated by the Prosecutor's Office in the file.

Recently, Maduro was enraged to see Borges and other Venezuelans requesting greater pressure against the dictatorship before the UN. One of them was the councilman Fernando Albán. Then the Sebin, in the usual style, kidnapped him as soon as he returned to the country and tortured him to incriminate Julio Borges. This is how Albán could comment to his wife, in his only brief call.

The offices of "investigations" of the 10th floor of the Sebin are the scene of torture. That is the only explanation to the question: why was Alban there? The executioners feel brave with handcuffed men and among the barbarians the intelligence does not exist. If impunity joins that, the result is already known. They ran their hands.

Fernando Albán died. He was murdered. Then they threw him out of a window through which it was impossible for him to throw himself under his will. The possibility of reaching her handcuffed, without being seen by half a dozen officials, does not exist. It is also about tilting windows with an opening of about 35 degrees that require a certain maneuver to pass a complete body.

They lacked time to coordinate the lie. Tarek William Saab, usurper prosecutor, declared by telephone without a single representative of the Public Ministry was in the place, that the councilman had jumped through a bathroom window. He forgot that the cubicle of the pot to which the detainees are transferred, has no window. For his part, Minister Néstor Reverol said that it had been from the waiting room.
At 12:30 in the afternoon, Fernando's body had been released. The order to erase evidence was immediate. The nearby hotels took the contents of the cameras and the motorcycle taxi drivers posted near the Sebin building, they confiscated the phones. The emergency measures punished even the CICPC officials who cut off the light to obstruct the collection of evidence and prevented them from accessing the contents of the cameras.

For the autopsy, a pirate "doctor" was found who does not know how to determine the date of the multiple lesions in soft and bony parts that would provide information regarding the time and cause of death. A deliberate bullshit.

And the stupor reached witnesses to the crime when several officials broke down in tears. But the complicity to stay in power is stronger. It is predictable that the differences between Néstor Reverol and González López will be solved. The prosecutor denounced before the International Criminal Court, Farik Mora, will sign whatever they order. And the material and intellectual authors will receive their bonus. They will feel that they were saved. Until one day justice is done.

Ibéyise Pacheco. Journalist and writer. Citizen of freedom. She stands out as one of the sharpest writers in investigative journalism, with cases that have shaken Venezuela. She is the author of the book Blood on the couch, one of the best selling in the country in the last decade, versioned for theater and TV in the US. He also published Under the cassock and The ignored cry. With the wrists of the crown, written from exile, the journalist transcends into the novel. He achieves a narrative full of suspense amid scandals and illegalities that expose a period of almost two decades in Venezuela and in which it is difficult to pinpoint the difference between reality and fiction.