(May 20, 2017)—Lynching of 21-yr-old Orlando José Figuera. Interior Ministry: Victim was doused in gasoline & set on fire in Altamira, Caracas. 1st & 2nd degree burns; multiple stab wound; deemed hate crime. Died in hospital 2 weeks later. His parents:pic.twitter.com/No0asmWcZS
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Orlando Figuera describes attack from his deathbed: ~ 3pm, he arrived near Altamira & Miranda stations. He was grabbed; knew nothing of attackers; only that they were participants in opposition (MUD) march; they had various items to be used as weapons. “Kill him!” they shouted.pic.twitter.com/NHDMSfQyJt
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Orlando Figuera had a job parking cars in El Paseo de la Mercedes, near Los Supermercados Plaza, says his mother, Inez Esparragoza. That day he was going to work, he was wearing a read shirt when he was grabbed by masked guarimberos who were participating in the opposition march.pic.twitter.com/lRV7S5jif7
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Speaking to a doctor at the hospital, Orlando Figuera’s mother was told that the guarimberos were young men who participate in marches because they're paid by the opposition. She asks, if that’s the case, how could [MUD leaders] Julio Borges and Henrique Capriles allow this?pic.twitter.com/fbO5RfCLCW
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Orlando Figuera’s mother Inez Esparragoza had been employed as a domestic worker. She was fired when her right-wing opposition employers saw her speaking to
@VTVcanal8 about this heinous hate crime against her son, on account of being 'Chavista.'pic.twitter.com/EDTxSRRsnQShow this thread -
- Orlando’s mother said the Attorney General should come for himself (this is still before Orlando died). - Orlando's father: They are Chavistas. - A member of the opposition had spread a lie that Orlando was involved in an act of robbery. - The family had been threatened.pic.twitter.com/T3m4mDOeJk
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Days after the May 20th attack, Orlando's mother & father did not yet know he would die from extensive injuries. Psychological trauma made it difficult speak with him, he suffered a lot in the days leading up to his death, recalling the attack by the opposition-paid guarimbas.pic.twitter.com/Ql1G9VsPtu
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Orlando Figuera was a victim of right-wing terrorism planned and financed by Venezuela's fascist opposition. They are the exact same fascists today, as they were in May of 2017. There can be absolutely no white-washing of this heinous act.pic.twitter.com/bq3VLHoLcd
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Following his death,
#OrlandoFiguera’s father, also named Orlando Figuera, made a call to the terrorists of the opposition MUD, particularly to it’s criminal leaders Julio Borges, Henrique Capriles Radonski and Freddy Guevara who regularly paid the guarimbas: Stop the violence.pic.twitter.com/ZPk7mQeQXLShow this thread
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*died June 3, 2017. May have been the 4th by the time we received confirmation from authorities.
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