Venezuela Police Finds New Leads in Assassination Investigation

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Venezuela Police Finds New Leads in Assassination Investigation


Wednesday, Mar 09, 2005

By: Jonah Gindin – Venezuelanalysis.com

Caracas, Venezuela, March 8, 2005—The investigation into the assassination of State Prosecutor Danilo Anderson has made progress, Attorney General Isaías Rodríguez said on Tuesday.  Rodriguez noted the investigation had discovered “new elements,” in the search for the planners of the car-bomb assassination that killed Anderson last November.

Anderson had been in charge of the Public Prosecutor’s most politically charged cases, including an investigation of over 400 people linked to the coup that briefly overturned the elected government of President Hugo Chávez in April, 2002.  On November 18, 2004, Anderson’s car exploded, killing the state prosecutor instantly.  The high-profile case against key coup supporters was widely assumed to be the reason Anderson was targeted.  Anderson reportedly received several death threats shortly before his assassination.

Since November, Venezuelan police have captured a number of suspects they accuse of having carried out the crime.  On Tuesday, two of these suspects, brothers Otoniel and Rolando Guevara, both former police officers, made their first appearance in court.  Two other suspects died in separate incidents when police tried to arrest them.  One of these, Antonio López Castillo, a lawyer and explosives expert, opened fire on the police when they tried to arrest him, killing one before he himself was killed.  López’s death led police to his parents’ house, where they discovered a massive arms cache, replete with firearms, explosive manuals from Central Intelligence Agency courses, and various kinds of explosives including C4, a highly-explosive material that police believe was used in the bomb that killed Anderson.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1539

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1. "Explosive manuals from Central Intelligence Agency courses"

I think that says enough

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3. They could have been left over from the DINA days.

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2. "Send lawyers, guns and money" -- and they found one guy who could

do all three.

Atonio López Castillo sounds like a colorful guy.

A lawyer accused of killing another lawyer. What happened to professional courtesy?