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05-28-2010, 04:20 PM
National Human Rights Commission president Manuel Maria Mercedes has told Clave newspaper that the recent murders of people the authorities have said have ties to Puerto Rican drug baron Jose David Figueroa Agosto could involve members of government security bodies. "We are almost convinced that these executions correspond to a sector within the security organizations so that at the end of the day they can keep the assets that have been confiscated from Figueroa Agosto," he said.
Peravia Senator Wilton Guerrero says that the recent murder of businessman Ruben Soto, owner of La Francesa coffee shop, shows that the network of Figueroa Agosto is acting with impunity and in complicity with government security organizations.
But lawyer Carlos Balcacer said it is "childish to think that fugitive Figueroa Agosto is behind these murders."
From 24 December 2009 to 14 May, nine people have been murdered, with or without links to Figueroa Agosto, according to media reports. Clave newspaper says that of the victims, four were on the chart that Police Chief Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin and General Rolando Rosado Mateo presented on the members of the Figueroa Agosto network on 12 January 2010. These include Colonel Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez (murdered 24 December 2009), Omar Ramon Antigua Polanco (murdered 1 February 2010), Alfredo Rodriguez (10 March 2010), Gabriel Arias Castillo (murdered 26 March 2010) and Ruben Soto Hayet (murdered 14 May 2010).
Carlos Balcacer says it is strange that while District prosecutors had said that Soto Hayet was a witness who would be summoned by the prosecutors, he was never given protection. Balcacer told Clave: "It gives the impression that the people behind these crimes are powerful elements; I am not saying, because I do not have proof that they are in power."
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Peravia Senator Wilton Guerrero says that the recent murder of businessman Ruben Soto, owner of La Francesa coffee shop, shows that the network of Figueroa Agosto is acting with impunity and in complicity with government security organizations.
But lawyer Carlos Balcacer said it is "childish to think that fugitive Figueroa Agosto is behind these murders."
From 24 December 2009 to 14 May, nine people have been murdered, with or without links to Figueroa Agosto, according to media reports. Clave newspaper says that of the victims, four were on the chart that Police Chief Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin and General Rolando Rosado Mateo presented on the members of the Figueroa Agosto network on 12 January 2010. These include Colonel Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez (murdered 24 December 2009), Omar Ramon Antigua Polanco (murdered 1 February 2010), Alfredo Rodriguez (10 March 2010), Gabriel Arias Castillo (murdered 26 March 2010) and Ruben Soto Hayet (murdered 14 May 2010).
Carlos Balcacer says it is strange that while District prosecutors had said that Soto Hayet was a witness who would be summoned by the prosecutors, he was never given protection. Balcacer told Clave: "It gives the impression that the people behind these crimes are powerful elements; I am not saying, because I do not have proof that they are in power."
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