Truth Commission an Important Step for Venezuela
Humberto Vargas Medina, a member of a new truth commission established to investigate past abuses in Venezuela, said Wednesday: “This is a very important step in our political history.”“For the first time,” he said, “we have a truth commission that is going to investigate the crimes committed in our country during four decades, from 1958 to 1998.”He said that events of those years have been erased from the memory of the Venezuelan people, and therefore the work of the commission is essential.“First, so that our people can remember, and second, to condemn those atrocities of State terrorism that were committed then, as a product of the ‘Pact of Punto Fijo’ period under the political parties Acción Democrática and Copei,” Vargas said in an interview on Venezolana de Televisión.The truth commission, which plans to commence its activities on February 27, will investigate politically-motivated crimes including forced disappearances, torture and other human rights violations committed from 1958 to 1998.Vargas recalled that during this time, a systematic state policy(BACKED BY U.S. GOVT) was in place to target leftist and revolutionary leaders.Forced disappearances, torture, and a large number of political prisoners were a consequence of state terrorism. They were not isolated events, but rather, part of a state policy that caused all of those atrocities,” he said.

[ed notes;those crimes were aided and supported by washington...it must not follow in Brazils truth commission steps, Exorcising the Ghosts of Brazil’s Dictatorship wich shelters the old guard military fascists still entrenched deep within its military institutions(some groomed by U.S.)wich are offered immunity even as commission documented their many crimes ..in supplementation link exorcizing above,you will read about how inter american  commission for  human rights (OAS TOOL)a discreditted organization welcomed brazils truth commission despite the immunity laws preventing arrests..one should note iachr never calls for us govt officials to be held accountable for their role in operation condor in brazil wich supported coup against goulart and installed fascist general branco(us puppet)