Arrests in Murder of Venezuelan Congressman and His Companion

The Venezuelan government has announced two arrests in the murder earlier this month of charismatic Congressman Robert Serra and his female companion in his home. Both were stabbed to death in what was deemed a political assassination. Serra's head of security has been arrested- apparently the hit was in part an inside job. Four more culprits are being sought. The Venezuelan government tied the murdered to Colombian so-called "paramilitaries," that is, fascist death squads long backed by the Colombian government and rich elite.

The murders come at a time when the new Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, has been seeking better relations with Venezuela and a peace agreement with FARC rebels. His predecessor, the vicious cutthroat and major landowner Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who founded the death squads, has repeatedly and hysterically denounced in public the efforts of his successor to achieve an internal peace not based on extermination and normal relations with Venezuela. I have a suspicion Uribe arranged the assassinations to sabotage relations with Venezuela. Violence is what fascists always resort to when something blocks them from getting their way.

Uribe was a darling of the U.S. Government, the Obama regime and Obama personally, and the U.S. media. The New York Times practically had a crush on him.

The earlier post right below this one also deals with the Serra murders.