who may still post here, and as the days passed, and the investigators learned he had over a million dollars in his personal bank account and started looking into his activities they learned he had been taking those government subsidized transportation passes meant to be used by students and selling them on the black market, as well as being involved in stolen cars, and I believe, drug junk.
Can't remember his name, but he was 28 years old, a university student who was the head of an anti-Chavez group with the word "luz" in it, he was a skinhead, and his photo looked like Curly of the Three Stooges - Les Stooges Troi. Quelle a-hole.
Well, sniff, resolute look, sniff sniff, life goes on!
Here's his name: Julio Soto! Woot!
CARACAS, miércoles 15 de octubre, 2008
Cicpc dice que venta de tiquets fue el móvil del asesinato de Soto
Maracaibo.- "El móvil que hasta ahora se desprende de la investigación acerca del asesinato de Julio Soto es la venta ilícita de los tiques estudiantiles", reveló el martes en rueda de prensa el director general del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas, Marcos Chávez, según reseñó el diario Panorama en su página de Internet.
El jefe policial explicó -en la sede de este organismo de seguridad en Maracaibo- que la investigación está orientada de acuerdo con tres lineamientos: el narcotráfico, el robo de carros y la venta ilegal de los tiques estudiantiles. Al final, dijo, todos convergen en la misma organización delictiva y en el mismo móvil.
Aseguró que las pruebas de balística y los resultados de las experticias practicadas a Soto y a su camioneta, entre otras, son los elementos que sustentan la solicitud de las primeras órdenes de aprehensión, que fueron emitidas la tarde del lunes por el Juzgado Décimo de Control del Zulia.
Entre los señalados, se encuentran funcionarios policiales, civiles y empresarios, todos relacionados con la venta de los boletos estudiantiles. "Los que están solicitados, residen, trabajan y operan en Maracaibo. Presumimos que pronto serán emitidas otras órdenes de aprehensión", indicó.
Una fuente ligada a la investigación detalló que entre los ocho solicitados hay tres policías de apellidos Álvarez, Criollo y Monroy; dos hermanos Méndez, unos hermanos Gaza, y otro sujeto apellidado Godoy.
http://caracas.eluniversal.com/2008/10/15/sucgc_art_cicpc-dice-que-venta_1095243.shtml~~
Google translation of the Universal story:
Cicpc says sale of tickets was the motive for the murder of Soto
Maracaibo .- " The motive so far it appears from the investigation into the murder of Julio Soto is the illicit sale of student tickets , " said Tuesday at a press conference the director general of the Scientific , Criminal and Marcos Chavez as quoted by the newspaper Panorama on its website .
The police chief explained, at the headquarters of the security agency in Maracaibo , which is oriented research based on three guidelines: drug trafficking, car theft and illegal sale of student tickets . In the end , he said, all converging on the same criminal organization and the same mobile.
He said ballistics tests and the results of the expert conducted to Soto and his truck, among others, are the elements that support the application of the first arrest warrants were issued late Monday by the Tenth Court Control Zulia.
Among those mentioned, are police officers, civilians and businessmen , all related to the sale of student tickets . "Those who are in demand , live , work and operate in Maracaibo. We assume that others will soon be issued arrest warrants , "he said .
A source close to the investigation explained that among the eight required three policemen surname Álvarez , Creole and Monroy , Mendez brothers , brothers Gaza, and another man named Godoy.
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Julio, we hardly knew ye. Concerning the student demonstration against Chavez, it's so true. This happens again and again, the press only mentioning the ANTI-Chavez marches while totally blocking any mention of the PRO Chavez demonstrations, demonstrators.
In this case they invited the anti-Chavez group to address the National Assembly where they would get a full hearing and lotsa media attention. They got flustered and bolted. They just weren't up to the challenge. It's probably because they realized they had no valid points they could defend. They fled. (I can't remember if this was near the referendum, or near the time RCTV was going to see its license not renewed for standard transmission, although it certainly moved to cable and satellite.)
They are very good at violent protests in the street, killing pro-Chavez marchers with their stupid industrial-strength slingshots with which they launch marbles (one lodged in the brain of an older pro-Chavez marcher long ago, and killed him) they are good at trapping pro-Chavez students inside buildings, building fires outside the windows to "smoke them out," cutting off water and electricity to the buildings where they have trapped the "enemy," etc., etc., etc. They are great at their idiotic, depraved violent protests, called "guarimbas," but they are unprepared to defend themselves morally.
So they stick with staging photo ops, and only involving themselves in situations which can be construed artfully to make them look good, like the group scenes of them on the escalators at the mall, all dressed up with little white hands, staying nice and cool, looking so cute, so "sincere" for the cameras to snap them for their publicity "protest" shots to spread in their anti-Chavez papers and tv news. Major assholes early in life.
Yon Goicoechea, proud recipient of $500,000.00 prize from the CATO Institute for his fine work as a student anti-Chavez protest leader!
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