The first political prisoner of Hugo Chavez's revolution ... IVAN SIMONOVIS .. VENEZUELA
He was arrested in November 2004 and accused by the government of Hugo Chávez of the violence of the Puente Llaguno Events that took place in Caracas on April 11, 2002.2 On April 3, 2009, he was convicted and sentenced to serve a sentence of 30 years
Simonovis is considered a political prisoner by human rights defenders. With deteriorating health, he requested a humanitarian pardon on several occasions, all of them rejected by the Venezuelan justice system On April 16, 2012, the former magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela Eladio Aponte Aponte writes a letter in San José de Costa Rica, in which he confesses having received orders and pressure from President Hugo Chávez to condemn Simonovis without right and the Metropolitan Police commissioners Henry Vivas, Lázaro Forero applying the maximum penalty for his participation in the events of April 2002. The letter It would be released in September. On September 20, 2014, he was granted a house by jail to continue his medical treatment.
On May 16, 2019 several media reported that Simonovis escaped from house arrest. Hours later, in a press conference, the president in charge Juan Guaidó confirmed that "he was released after a pardon" in his capacity as president in charge. "He received a pardon on April 30 that was not executed, today he is in fair freedom, there will be no more political prisoners here," he said.
Making clear who is Ivan Simonovis ... Diosdado Cabello comes with a new version of Simonovis's biography.
The first vice president of Psuv, Diosdado Cabello, assured that Iván Simonovis has always "been an agent of the United States".
In his speech, the parliamentarian compared Ivan Simonovis with "Mc Giber, Super Agent 86 or the protagonist of Mission Impossible".
"He was a prisoner for 15 years and, like Rambo, he caught a plane and piloted it. They do not know how to tell lies! If they are coberos, the lies for the people to believe should not have such spectacular things. A guy who until yesterday could not walk and could not urinate. He had cancer and now he is a hero, "he said.
In this sense Cabello clarified that Simonovis has always been an agent of the United States: "That is an agent for years, participated in a massacre in Venezuela on April 11, 2002. He was chief of police, operations of the Metropolitan Police of the Mayor's Office and hired the snipers who murdered the Puente Llaguno people. He was applauded by journalists when he murdered a man in Los Valles del Tuy. It has no name. "
For anybody in Venezuela, it is a secret that being a political prisoner is synonymous with the fact that your rights as a human being and as a defendant do not exist. For no one is a secret in Venezuela that every political prisoner is tortured and even killed by these thieves who call themselves defenders of the people and what they really are the culprits of the worst social economic disaster that has existed worldwide.
That this man has escaped from his place of reclusion is something that applauds more than a Venezuelan who knows that this person was a victim of abuse, abuse and torture. Remember in Venezuela what is missing is the autonomy in the powers since all the powers are under the command of the government dome, and that in Venezuela is imprisoned by the government that hinders or who serves as a scapegoat.