(Yesterday we published the Spanish-language version of this piece detailing the beating of Venezuelan anarchist Gianni Humberto Scovino by would-be Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s militarized national police. Here’s the translation.
As you can see from the attached video, the beating was deliberate and entirely unprovoked. Our Venezuelan comrades promise another piece on the arrest and torture of Venezuelan anarchists by the “revolutionary” Maduro regime; we’ll publish it as soon as we receive it, first in Spanish and then in English after we translate it.)
Gianni Scovino is a young man of 33 with Asperger’s syndrome and a member of the Turtle Foundation (Fundación La Tortuga [http://www.fundacionlatortuga.org/]), a participant in the punk scene, and an anarchist media activist using materials from El Libertario [Venezuela’s primary anarchist periodical] on his Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt5E7TuSaxrHPyoXF07LlZg/videos), where he puts up videos in both Spanish and English.
On July 13, he was savagely assaulted by members of the Bolivarian National Police (Policía Nacional Bolivariana [PNB]) and the Bolivarian National Guard (Guardia Nacional Bolivariana [GNB]) in the parking lot of the Grand Central Commercial Dairy Plaza (Centro Comercial Plaza Mayor de Lecherías) in the state of Anzoátegui while he was on a recycling run for the Turtle Foundation. A video of the attack is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5e5NDx7Ues
[Translator’s note: The Chávez regime and now its successor, the Maduro regime, refer to themselves as “Bolivarian,” in an attempt to paint themselves as the successors of Simon Bolivar, the leader of the 19th-century uprising against Spanish colonialism.]
After being brutally beaten by the PNB and GNB with nightsticks and with shields used as battering rams, he was held for 36 hours at Detachment 521 of the Command of Zone 521 of the GNB, before being transferred to a medical facility for treatment. At present he’s recovering in the Hospital of the Venezuelan Institute of Social Insurance.
Those responsible for the attack on Gianni are GNB first sergeants Osmel Zambrano Márquez and Joel José Díaz Carreño, and second sergeants Julio César Gómez Mata and José Gregorio Trébol Pinto, as well as the PNB attaché Luis Ramón Cova León and PNB officials Xavier Alexander Díaz Salazar, Elio Antonio Díaz Maigua and José Alejandro Villegas Olivero.
The violent assault suffered by Gianni is symptomatic of the constant violence in Venezuela for the last 100 days, in which, since April 1, more than 3,500 people have been detained, an incalculable number have been injured, and there have been police raids on civil and residential sites. Thus far 303 Venezuelan civilians have gone before military tribunals. And more than 100 people have been killed.
We’re making an international call to our overseas anarchist comrades for solidarity in the face of the attacks on the people of Venezuela during this uprising of the people. Silence is complicity with a dictatorship that oppresses, tortures, and jails anarchists.
Let indignation become rage against the oppressor!
With Gianni and all of the Venezuelans rising against the regime, we remain the anarchists in the popular uprising.
Some of the Youtube videos from Gianni Scovino:
- ¿Quiénes son los anarquistas y qué es anarquismo?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12RPh0r_QuQ
- #Venezuela Opinión: Ni con votos, ni con armas ni con nada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_NRtxrnzUk
- #Venezuela Opinión: Maduro ratifica el terrorismo de Estado como su política: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpA9o1hcjhg
- Anarquismo: La historia que el poder quiere negar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QozSvgah980&t=29s
- #Venezuela Contra el neoliberalismo bolivariano, el fraude constituyente y la represión militarista: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkALARUcGjk
- “Coto” Paúl: Rescatando una olvidada voz de la anarquía en la #Venezuela de 1811: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-esYIRe9WQ&t=153s
- Llamado desde Venezuela a l@s anarquistas de Latinoamérica y el mundo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIACzd5PsfY&t=283s
- Reseña ibérica a libro sobre historia del anarquismo en Venezuela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJI8oPez47I&t=24s
- #Venezuela Del terrorismo de la IV al terrorismo de la V República: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WntqAs3nxMw
- El 1° de Mayo en palabras y acciones de tres combativas mujeres anarquistas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNvjUq9BQNc
- #Venezuela Una consigna de 2014 a retomar: ¡DISOLUCIÓN INMEDIATA DE LA GUARDIA NACIONAL BOLIVARIANA!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq2HAq_DmC4
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