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flee[, the] groups recognized [her] and began [to shout] ‘there goes Luisiana
Ríos kill her, grab her, you won’t escape, traitor, coupist, anti-patriotic’ […]”.
d)
Subsequently, while she “[…] was interviewing the then Minister of
Defense, […] Captain José Rodrigo García Contreras [who] worked in the
Intelligence Department of the Miraflores Palace was only about two meters
away and [he called her] and […] aggressively [said to her:] ‘Luisiana go
away. You don’t deserve to be here in the Miraflores Palace after what
happened’ […] ‘if you don’t leave, I’ll remove you myself […]’”.
e)
“On September 4 [2002, she] was […] reporting a protest march of the
so-called opposition in Fuerte Tiuna and […] the Government supporters also
arrived and [...] there they threatened to kill [her], […] they had broken
bottles that they threw at the people and […] they [began] to hit [her], […]
while [she] tried to protest to […] the military police that they should please
let [her] pass behind the line of soldiers [and] they […] didn’t say anything,
they didn’t protect [them] or anything, [she felt] that they jerked [her] from
behind and they were strangling [her], […] in view of the hopelessness of the
situation, a soldier from another unit, from the National Guard, rescued
[her…].”
f)
On October 15, 2002, “[…] the President was visiting schools [and] in
one of them [they] found groups of Government supporters and the military
unit ordered [them] to leave the school [and] when […] they departed, they
were hit, [they] had to flee in the vehicle […] and since then [she] no longer
goes out into the street to work.”
g)
Groups of Government supporters installed themselves at the doors of
the television company where she works and they stayed there for about four
days during the first week of December. “They set up camp […] which made
it impossible for her […] to get to [her] office, at the offices of the Channel,
[she] could not enter and if [she] was able to enter [… she] could not leave,
because they threw stones, […] they even […] had a sign, […] which said that
[she] should take care because they would burn a family business,” and then,
because her “life was no longer safe […the Channel decided] to leave [her]
inside the channel’s offices and now [she] no longer goes out […] to report on
events.”
h)
She can describe her aggressors as “Government supporters” because
“these people are always identified by shirts that say ‘Círculo Bolivariano’
(Bolivarian Circle), ‘Coordinadora Simón Bolívar’ (Simón Bolívar Coordinator),
‘Guerreros de La Vega’ (La Vega Warriors), and they always wear the red
berets that identify these groups and they identify themselves as supporters
of the President and defenders of the revolution […]”.
i)
On one occasion, she was contacted by a corporal in the Metropolitan
Police, Corporal Antonio Sánchez, “who could not protect her because he was
not [given] access to events inside the Miraflores Palace [and] because the
police unit to which he belonged was intervened and its arms were
confiscated by the Armaments Department of the Venezuelan Armed Forces.”
j)
She finds herself in a situation of defenselessness and lack of security,
owing to which she is unable to carry out the work for which her five years of
university training prepared her.
Furthermore, she has had to move
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