Connection with Municipal Council in my home town in August 2013

janheram (25)in #journalism • 6 years ago

Read the post that precedes this one in relating this story: "Returning to Venezuela and going back to hiding in 2012" here
https://steemit.com/politics/@janheram/returning-to-venezuela-and-going-back-to-hiding-in-2012

This part of the story is basically a turning point in which, because I had never taken the threat seriously, I made the mistake of becoming a consultant for a different municipality. I did not suspect that this city hall was also connected with criminal mafias.
Because of by a network of friends from the university where I got my undergraduate degree, I trusted this man and gave him a Curriculum Vitae including information about my low-profile work as an informant for my Aunt's murder as well as about my self-funded initiatives involving ethnographic observations.

I became known in a small political circle in Aragua state.

This smaller team inside the municipality began to offer me privileges such as: getting my family’s business to do profiteering for the municipality, getting me in a secret list of people who would receive an exclusive apartment for politicians free of charge.

I was identifiable in the Ministry of Communication and Information (MINCI) registry of National Independent Producers under the number 8947

Initial team led by this man and his brother were about 25 people. They reported to their leaders different information about the town's inhabitants according to their criteria and requests.

They monitored whether I would denounce anything on the internet.

I continued to denounce general facts on Twitter. I never mentioned any mayor or any municipality.