Founder of the Tupamaro José Pinto party received a substitute for freedom

Pinto carried out a hunger strike for several months as a form of pressure to be granted the measure.

The founder of the Tupamaro political movement, José Pinto, received this Tuesday a substitute for freedom, according to the general secretary of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), Oscar Figuera.

“José Tomás Pinto has received an alternative measure of deprivation of liberty. To continue fighting and winning!”, he wrote on his account on the social network Twitter.

Figuera noted that the measure represents a victory, so “in this effort the Popular Revolutionary Alternative and the PCV have done their bit. Only the consistent struggle guarantees the conquest and preservation of our rights.”

On June 15, 2020, José Pinto -at the time a deputy of the Legislative Council of the state of Vargas- was arrested by officials of the Criminal and Criminal Scientific Investigations Corps (Cicpc) for his alleged involvement in the murder of George Soto Berroterán, a 16-year-old adolescent and fisherman who worked for former boss Tupamaro.

Regarding this case, Attorney General Tarek William Saab indicated that “an arrest warrant had been requested once morest Pinto Marrero and José Fidel Blanco, Jesús Sánchez Roquett and Jesús Ibarra, for their responsibility in the death of a 16-year-old teenager, George Soto. Berroteran. While the escorts and two fishermen attacked the teenager, Juan Romero managed to escape and went into the mountains.

Saab had added that on June 12, “a grave sealed with concrete, a skeleton and on it a bag with clothing and personal documents of the adolescent” was found.

After forensic analysis, it was found that there was a “hole produced by a projectile” in the body caused by a firearm, the attorney general indicated at the time.

Pinto carried out a hunger strike between the months of June, July and August, as a form of pressure to be granted the alternative measure of freedom.

On that occasion, Pinto Marrero’s lawyers denounced the decision of the judge of the Sixth Trial Court of the Caracas Metropolitan Area, following refusing to accept the request to designate the accused’s house as a detention center.

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