Although the regime says, and even proves, that General Raúl Isaías Baduel was killed by COVID-19, the reality is that for all Venezuelans he was killed by the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros. In Venezuela -and nowhere else in the world- no political prisoner or not, can die in a prison in custody of the authorities, and even less a political prisoner like General Baduel who was kidnapped, run over and all his human rights violated, as permanently denounced by his relatives and lawyers. The COVID-19 has served the regime not only to keep the Venezuelan society contained to reject this infernal misgovernment in the streets, but also as an excellent excuse to get rid of those who politically oppose it.
It is enough to say "he died of COVID-19!" is enough for a felon Prosecutor to cover up some atrocity of the regime. The least that could be expected was that an investigation be opened and the causes of his death be derived from it. But that is not possible in Venezuela, as was clear from the reports of the independent Human Rights missions of the UN and the OAS. They immediately ruled and informed the public opinion "that he died because of the COVID-19 pandemic". In this way, "by superior orders" the corpse can be taken to a crematorium and the evidence of any irregularity can disappear. Those who should be the most interested in this case being handled in the most transparent way possible are precisely the regime whose sole responsible is Nicolás Maduro Moros.
I hope that the pressure of public opinion, his lawyers, relatives, the Churches and those of us who can raise our voices, can prevent the body of General Raúl Isaías Baduel from being cremated or desecrated so that an autopsy duly conducted and certified by Human Rights organizations can be performed to determine the true causes of his death, as well as to allow his relatives to give him a proper Christian burial. Is it possible to expect this minimum respect from this regime after so much iniquity against the Baduel family?
Having said the above, which is nothing more than a reaction of indignation before the barbarity of what can be considered yet another crime against humanity committed by Nicolás Maduro Moros and those who are in the chain of custody of the political prisoners in the different jails and dungeons of this regime, the best tribute that can be paid to General Raúl Isaías Baduel is to preserve the transcendence of his ideas, what he did and proposed for Venezuela, despite the history that we know he was the protagonist and that only the next generations will be able to judge. He is already before the Creator and anything improper that could have been attributed to him will be judged by God, even though a great part of the possible errors incurred were already paid not only by him, but also by his entire family, in the small communist hell to which he was subjected by his former companions in the regime, starting with Hugo Chávez Frías himself.
General Baduel was a very controversial figure, not only for being the main responsible for the reinstatement of Hugo Chávez Frías in his presidential functions immediately after April 11, 2002, but also for his important and decisive support to the rejection of the Constitutional reform of 2007. These two important milestones in favor and against the regime made him a figure hated and followed at the same time by different sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, and especially in the Armed Forces.
We agree with General Baduel that the definitive solution to the Venezuelan political problem continues to be the convocation of a National Constituent Assembly of an original nature. In fact, General Baduel published a book in May 2008, little known and of limited circulation due to the restriction of the regime, titled in Spanish “Mi solución, Venezuela Crisis y Salvación” (you can download it from https://tinyurl.com/p7z9juam) where, after several political considerations, he comes to our same conclusions:
"Originally it was a research paper in the area of energy and oil security and defense of the state. That revision occupies me a lot, since one of my aspirations is to make an updated version of this work. When I retired from active service, thanks to a work team with which I joined forces, we were able to expand that original work to a diagnosis/prognosis, with some options for solutions for the country in four major areas, which we call factors: Educational-Cultural Factor, Economic-Petroleum Factor, Political-Institutional Factor and the Ideological Factor, with the final proposal of why, why and how to convene a national popular constituent assembly as the efficient and democratic way to rebuild our country. When I hear talk of reconciliation I think that the best space for this would be the activation of the original constituent power. A constituent assembly, in its most universally accepted concept, is a maximum pact of broad consensus of all sectors of the country and that minorities are also represented" (emphasis added) (see in Spanish Desde prisión el General Baduel: “El país necesita una constituyente”, entrevista de Leocenis García para 6toPoder, 27 de mayo 2013 http://raulbaduel.blogspot.com/2013/05/desde-prision-el-general-baduel-el-pais.html). These are the ideas that will endure despite the violence of those who wish to silence them and the assassination of their defenders. The regime will end before the people forget those who raised these banners.
Personally, I differed with General Baduel on the way to approach the constituent solution, especially on the popular call that we were addressing before May 1, 2017, the date on which the regime decided to carry out a Constituent Assembly without the authorization of the Venezuelan people. Many coincidences in the “what” but also many differences in the “how”. The call for a process of this nature should -and still should- be discussed in depth especially with people who, like him, know the regime in depth as well as the decisive factors to carry it out, and are willing to submit to the decision of the Popular Sovereignty. Unfortunately, there was no time to reconcile these ideas before the regime imprisoned General Baduel again.
Outraged Venezuela, the International Community and national and international Human Rights organizations must repudiate with all their might the death of political prisoner General Raúl Isaías Baduel, in the dungeons of the regime, and immediately demand a thorough investigation to find the causes and those responsible for his death in the custody of the authorities. The cruelty that existed and still exists against him, his wife Cruz and his children, several of them still imprisoned, has no comparison in the recent history of Venezuelan dictatorships, and must cease immediately because the supposed threat that General Baduel's life represented for the regime no longer exists.
Go to his family my heartfelt condolences for the murder of this worthy Venezuelan at the hands of the regime, in the hope that his death will influence the awakening of the hearts of the decent officers and soldiers who still remain within our Armed Forces and on whom he influenced, who still believe that it is possible to recover our country from within, despite the outrages, the jail and the injustice. Our condolences also go to them because I know they are outraged by such a cowardly near death. Never forget that death has always been the inseparable companion of freedom. Rest in peace General Baduel...
Caracas, October 13, 2021
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