• Tortures. Captain Acosta's death: "He was beaten up and cut from the right buttock downwards"

  • Acosta, Spain demands an investigation to clarify the violent death of the captain in Venezuela

"Contrary to what the criminal investigation by the Venezuelan justice shows, Rafael Acosta did not die in a hospital. He

was disappeared, tortured and died before a judge

. Justice has not been

served

on these events," denounced Erika Guevara Rosas, director for the Americas of Amnesty International (AI).

The new AI findings, obtained from the 550 pages of the criminal file mounted against two national guards attached to the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim),

deny the government version and confirm that Captain Acosta was tortured

, probably in a clandestine center, until leaving him dying.

The captain had

multiple injuries

, "which compromised his lungs to the point of causing severe cerebral edema," the report says.

Last year Acosta's assassination provoked national consternation and international repudiation, in addition to confirming what human rights organizations already knew: in the Dgcim, political prisoners and, above all, the military are systematically tortured.

Its headquarters in Caracas is today the largest torture center in the country

.

Despite all the data that appear in the report and the evidence obtained,

the word torture is never used in the file

, "despite the 50 bodily injuries of the victim and his precarious state of health before arriving at the military court seven days after his family denounced his disappearance, "said Guevara Rosas.

"The new evidence shows the lack of confidence that exists in the Venezuelan justice system to reach the truth," said the director of AI.

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