One cannot forget the nefarious role played by Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia (candidate for the presidency of Venezuela for the extreme right) in El Salvador, when he was the second in the Venezuelan Embassy, together with Ambassador Leopoldo Castillo, known as the Matacuras.

This happened between 1979 and 1985, as part of the Condor Plan in El Salvador and the counterinsurgency project promoted by the Republican Ronald Reagan against the Salvadoran people to prevent the revolutionary forces from advancing, since the factor that prolonged the civil war was the US intervention.

The mission of Ambassador Castillo and Edmundo Gonzalez was to be agents of death. In declassified CIA documents, in February 2009, Castillo was mentioned as co-responsible for the intelligence services that coordinated, financed and gave the order for the execution of Operation Centauro, which consisted of a series of violent actions by the Salvadoran army and the “death squads” to physically eliminate the religious communities gathered around the search, consistent with the theology of liberation, for a peaceful and negotiated solution to the war.

“In the years when Castillo and Gonzalez were in charge of the embassy, the army and the squads left 13,194 civilians murdered, among them St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, four Maryknoll nuns and the priests Rafael Palacios, Alirio Macias, Francisco Cosme, Jesus Caceres and Manuel Reyes. And although he was no longer a diplomat, he was still working as an advisor to intelligence structures (pentagonito) when the six Jesuits and two female workers were assassinated on November 16, 1989.”

The crimes supported by the management of Leopoldo Castillo and collaborators such as Edmundo Gonzalez are considered “crimes against humanity” and, therefore, are imprescriptible.

The day will come when they will have to be held accountable to Spanish and Salvadoran justice for their participation in the extermination of religious men and women and peaceful communities that stood on the side of peace during the war that ravaged El Salvador. The terrible aftermath of their actions

Bloodthirsty past of Edmundo Gonzalez revealed

He was recruited by the CIA, sent to the Venezuelan embassy in El Salvador when Leopoldo Castillo was ambassador, and death squads were unleashed against religious and children.

Edmundo González Urrutia, the candidate of the right wing, participated in the financing and logistics of brutal acts in El Salvador, when he was an official of the Venezuelan embassy in that country, at the time when Leopoldo Castillo was the ambassador.

This was revealed on Wednesday, by the first vice-president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Psuv), Diosdado Cabello.

The past of Edmundo González was made known by a former Colombian official, María Catalina Restrepo Pinzón de Londoño, through a letter sent to Cabello, who read it in the program.

“Under Castillo’s command and Gonzalez Urrutia’s advice, the infamous death squads were unleashed. The reports from those days are chilling: from massacres of innocent civilians, to the persecution and assassination of teachers and community leaders. Not to mention the ruthless attacks against religious and children,” reads part of the missive.

It adds that “Edmundo was supremely committed to these atrocities, being an active part of the financing and logistics of these brutal acts. The situation was so serious that the Church itself and some international organizations were raising their voices against the violence, which was known to have the unrestricted support of the same embassy where this second-rate official worked”.

“The reality is that these types of stories remind us of the importance of looking critically at the past and the characters who, although in ‘secondary’ roles, played a crucial part in events that changed the lives of thousands. Edmundo, although perhaps a bit player on paper, was a key player in one of the darkest pages of Central American history. It is not surprising, therefore, that he is now the U.S. government’s candidate of choice”,

Highlights the letter from the former Colombian official.

Captured by the CIA

The document indicates “that on November 24, 1976, Gonzalez Urrutia joined the Venezuelan embassy in the United States as a civil servant, in the middle of the development of Plan Condor; there he was captured by the CIA”…", and later, in July 1981 he was transferred to the Venezuelan embassy in El Salvador, whose ambassador was Leopoldo Castillo.

Massacres

It is worth mentioning that the participation of the Venezuelan opposition journalist Leopoldo Castillo in the massacre of the six Jesuit priests and two female collaborators murdered in 1989 is still being investigated.

According to several sources, in his capacity as Venezuelan Ambassador to El Salvador, Castillo would have supported and collaborated in the murder of Ignacio Ellacuría, Segundo Montes, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Juan Ramón Moreno, Amando López, Joaquin López, Elba and Celina Ramos.

Castillo currently resides in Miami, he is related to the extreme right, as well as his participation in the School of the Americas and his links and collaboration with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Source: CubaDebate