Venezuela Goes Through the Tunnel of Torture

Nearly all the constitutions from 1811, when torture was abolished in the Republic for good, to 1999, which establishes in its article 49 that "no person may be subjected to punishment, torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," have referred to in their articles the condemnation of this practice that violates human rights and goes against the sense of civility. During the 20th century, the dictatorships of Cipriano Castro, Juan Vicente Gómez and Marcos Pérez Jiménez had a black mark for their systematic use of torture (both physical and psychological) to force people to confess and to rat out the detractors of those regimes. More…