For almost two years It was on social media Venezuela The question “Where is Carlos Lance?”. Mysterious disappearance of well-known ex-guerrilla, iInvolved in the armed struggle that ensued Che Guevara In the 60s And a decade later The protagonist of the most famous kidnapping in Venezuela’s historywas debatable and it mandated a thorough judicial inquiry.
The Conquerors, hired by Lance’s emotional partner, were tasked with shooting him dead at close range. According to the indications of Maxiorisol Cumare, the former guerrilla’s partner for more than three decades, there should be no traces on his body. He paid $8,000 to dismember his partner in a piggery for pigs to eat.
Details of an undoubtedly shocking event were provided by Attorney General Derek William Sapp, who took to the media platform on July 6 to deny any political motive. Although the background is actually a conspiracy Corruption.
The marital differences between Kumare and Lance, according to the prosecutor, were related to the corrupt practices in which the woman was immersed, due to her being the director of ICES (Institute of National Socialist Education and Training) in the province. Aragua, in the center of the country, amassed a small fortune by finger-counting contracts with the state.
Lance was reported missing in August 2020 by his children from a previous partner. Since then, a committee for the life of Carlos Lance has been activated, which, as grotesque as it may seem, Kumare also participated.
Left activists, In Venezuela, criticism is called Chavismo He who broke the regime Nicolás Maduro But the figure says Hugo ChavezSeveral hypotheses have been supported over the past two years.
First, the thesis dealt with a “pass of reckoning” against Lance from Washington for his role in the kidnapping of a top US representative of a transnational corporation. He may have been abducted to prevent him from denouncing corruption Chavismo.
Lance, born 1946. Initially associated with guerrilla warfare in Venezuela. In the 1960s, he was part of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN). Formed as an armed wing of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) with Cuban trainees on the advice of Che Guevara. And his own weapons Fidel Castro.
It was like that Guevara’s association with the FALN, at one point suspected to have joined the mountain guerilla brigades of the Balkan state (province). Finally the “heroic guerrilla” went to Bolivia.
In 1966, the PCV broke ranks with Havana’s Foquista guerrillas and aligned itself with the then-Soviet Union and the then-powerful Soviet Communist Party to insert Third World communist parties into the political struggle. There are conditions for that.
In Venezuela, the democratic system of the time opted for what was known as “peace.”This led to the legalization of PCV and, in effect, the condoning of crimes committed by those in arms.
Lance then chose to continue the armed struggle, which moved from mountainous areas to urban operations, as a means of financing his activities, including kidnappings, particularly from the 70s onwards. When Cuba moved away from Douglas Bravo, a key figure of the eraThe one who refused to “make peace”.
Lance’s presence came to the fore William Frank Niehus, the key figure in the kidnapping, is an American businessman and a powerful transnational representative in Venezuela.. The businessman was accused of having links with rebel groups Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)It has been three years since he was kidnapped.
Niehous was released in a military operation and Lanz was detained in it. This would have been achieved thanks to the denunciation of Ivan Padilla Bravo, another of the kidnappers. They demanded 20 million dollars for his release.
In the mid-1980s, all involved in this high-profile case, The most significant kidnapping recorded in Venezuelawere released by the democratic government and some of them, like Lance, joined university teaching in public institutions.
Lance is missing, as of August 2020. Virtually ignored by Venezuela’s judiciary and police authorities. After intensifying their campaigns on social networks and revealing that no in-depth investigations had been carried out, the prosecutor’s office took up the case a few months ago and offered a million dollars for reliable information on Lance’s whereabouts.
Apparently this sum broke a network of bound accomplices, and the person who helped Lance with the housework provided the information. In total, a dozen people have been detained and prosecuted.
“The picture left by the lawyer Tarek William Chapp in the last years of the life of the guerrilla Carlos Lance is very sad; a corrupt wife with many lovers, who tormented him and beat him. And when he wanted, he decided to kill. He, with the help of several assistant revolutionaries,” Commented veteran journalist Gregorio Salazar. This is the epilogue This controversial figure is a former Venezuelan guerrilla struggle supported by Cuba.