The crusade of Rosa Orozco, the indomitable Venezuelan

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Two years after the murder of her daughter,

was able to confront her murderers after many attempts.

That day there was almost no one in the court that judged them, which

's mother took advantage of to stand next to her.

Overcoming the feeling that devoured her insides,

The guilty silence of sergeants

and

members of the

lasted for a few seconds.

This indomitable Venezuelan broke it with her words, which perfectly sum up the spirit of her crusade: "I am going to do what I have to do. And the first thing will be to forgive myself, because I have to release this hatred

and my soul to move on".

On that long-awaited day, in front of her daughter's murderers, the woman took a deep breath until she felt "that there was Rosa Orozco for a while and also to continue in this fight. But that I forgive does not mean that I give them

absolution

they have committed crimes against humanity. Without justice we will not have peace and tranquility to move forward, "he explains to EL MUNDO.

Rosa Orozco and the lawyer Martha Tineo have traveled to Madrid

at the start of a European tour that will also take them to

This Tuesday they will be at the headquarters of EL MUNDO.

"Our demand, after sentencing the two perpetrators to 30 and 15 years in prison, is that the other guards who participated in the repression be tried, as well as the responsible chain of command, which includes commanders, ministers and even the president of the Republic if that were the case," explains Tineo.

"For us

outside the country so that they know what is really happening," emphasizes her friend and travel companion.

The existing impunity in Venezuela has forced them to resort to international bodies, but their fight goes beyond justice for Geraldine.

Both lead the

which fights against impunity in the more than 300 murders committed during demonstrations and protests.

The murder of the young Geraldine, a 24-year-old university student, shocked Venezuela in the early stages of the 2014 protests, the same ones that led

That February day, the residents of

three hours from

quietly demonstrated in front of their houses with flags and whistles.

Very close to his was Rosa's daughter.

"Until a detachment of 24 National Guardsmen arrived on

Geraldine ran out and was shot (with pellet cartridges) twice (Barroso in the back and Bonilla in the head), so fell. The creature was left helpless on the floor, he even put out his hand to beg for mercy and not be shot anymore. And Geraldine

embedding a cartridge. Why did that man do that? "What was your motivation to shoot a helpless girl on the floor? My daughter was a beautiful, precious girl, she had never attacked anyone in her life, even today I can't explain it," Orozco says.

The eight-year crusade against the revolutionary giant has forged Orozco, who has even faced the associations of "victims" that Chavismo set up to counteract it both inside and outside the country, with very little success.

Even today, eight years after the tragedy, the

"visits" her at her house, parking "in front to see what I do. I go out and touch the glass to ask if they have had coffee yet." .

Rosa knows that no one is going to give her daughter back, "that is a reality that I face every morning when I wake up and she is not by my side. But that does not stop me from demanding that there be no more extrajudicial executions in my country and nor impunity, that justice be done in the case of my daughter and that of so many mothers who have lost their children. And that is why I am here.

and this has kept me to continue raising my voice.

That's why we founded JEP, created by a mother who brutally lost her daughter in an extrajudicial execution.

And with the aim of helping other mothers who may not have the same impetus as me, something that God rewarded me with to move forward, "she recounts vehemently, encouraged by the memories.

The reality that the two women want to show the world has nothing to do with the one that is being sold by revolutionary propaganda through their media empire.

"Lack of genuine and transparent investigations, that is the reality we want to show," clarifies Tineo, who denounces that the

despite the fact that we maintain

with the systematic violation of the economic, social and cultural rights of the population, with a lack of supply of drinking water, domestic gas, electricity... A chaotic situation".

Rosa Orozco knows who is to blame for what is happening in her country:

total debacle we are in. That is why I taught my daughter to love Venezuela, the country that these people have destroyed. In my house there was talk of democracy and freedom of expression, that's what Geraldine learned."

Rosa Orozco, Martha Tineo and Javier Cremades, today at the EL MUNDO School of Journalism

This Tuesday,

and

partners in the NGO Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón will be at the

to tell about their experiences and the project that unites them.

Attorney

will accompany them to explain the protection work being carried out by the

office for Venezuelan dissidents.

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