There are many things that Ana
She doesn’t understand. She still doesn’t know why, on Saturday, August 3, some men dressed in black took her son in a van when he was going to the grocery store to buy something. She also hasn’t found an explanation for the arrest, two days later, of her 21-year-old grandson while he was working. All she knows is that she hasn’t been allowed to see them for more than a month. And visits remain suspended in Tocuyito.
Her life is no longer the same. She continues to work because she cannot afford to lose her job, but she spends her days and nights anguished, sad and praying for her son and grandson. Both were transferred to the Tocuyito prison on August 26 from the Valencia Municipal Police command, on Michelena Avenue, near the La Concha gas station.
His daughter, the mother of his grandson, lives in Colombia, from where she returned a week ago due to so much concern and uncertainty.
She goes to the Tocuyito prison every day. She asks, she insists, but the most optimistic answer she has received is that she could see her son on September 5. This was not the case. The day before, they called her to tell her that the visits that never began were suspended “until further notice.”
They have not let us see them, nor have they given them the food or things we bring them. We do not know how they are really, although the National Guard says that they are all fine and that they are eating.
They were only allowed to make a phone call once. It was three minutes and Ana’s mind echoes with her son’s expression: “They give us arepas without filling for breakfast and dinner and just grains for lunch.”
She is not sure about the participation in protests against the outcome of the presidential process announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE), “but whether they went or not, there is no reason for them to be in prison.”
Hoping to see you
The notice of the suspension of visits arrived for most of the relatives on Wednesday. “First, a man called me who identified himself as an employee of the Tocuyito prison, who bluntly informed me about the rescheduling of visits, without additional details. Later, a woman called in a more friendly tone, explaining that the suspension was due to improvements in the conditions of the center.
Finally, a representative of the Caracas courts confirmed that there will be no visits until further notice.”
Still, they went to jail hoping that the measure would be reversed with the pressure of everyone’s presence, but it didn’t work.
Relatives of detainees from Lara, Mérida and La Guaira also arrived early Thursday in Tocuyito. Desperate, they asked for at least a date for the visits, but they did not get one. Since Monday, August 26, more than 230 detainees have been transferred to Tocuyito from Lara, Trujillo, La Guaira and Carabobo. Among those arrested are five 17-year-old teenagers, whose parents demand that they be transferred to a center appropriate for their age.
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2024-09-08 07:53:08
