CARACAS, Wednesday November 30, 2005 | Update
Is it possible to find intact traces of explosive C-4 in
the seat of the car where the body of public prosecutor Danilo
Anderson was imbedded?
The doubt emerged in the seventh session of the trial against
alleged perpetrators of the murder, Juan Bautista, Otoniel
and Rolando Guevara, following the explanation provided by
Adolorata Casimirre, a member of the Physical-Chemical Laboratory,
Scientific, Penal and Criminology Investigation Agency (Cicpc.)
Cassimire reported that the Technical Inspection Division
asked her in a memorandum dated November 22nd, 2004, to look
for any explosives in the materials tested.
In reply to a question made by defense attorney Pedro Miguel
Castillo, the expert answered that the materials analyzed
had not been ignited. Had they been burnt, as most of Anderson's
car, identification had been difficult.
Prosecutor Gilberto Landaeta reasserted that the finding
was made in Anderson's van, and he was personally present.
Prosecutor Yoraco Bauza, however, was not very sure.
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."