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This post has been edited, it is not the same one, it is similar, but it was taken from the one above.The fear of Sabino's assassins
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Fear and terror is not only felt by the Yukpa noways, it comes back the year the city was being built by the Canary Island descendants. In the year of 1872 some troops, commanded by Venancio Pulgar, started to burn the Villa, a territory where Yukpas lived, by 1890 their territory was stolen in the name of "progress" and a "more civilized" culture, and of course power.
Although it is a constant and painful fear, the cards are turning around, fear is now being felt by the ranchers who inherited the stolen lands, whom they are now facing trials for their terror methods, organized crime and the murder of Yukpas. One of the Yukpas killed was Sabino Romero.
The family structure of the ranchers is a closed minded one, they think they are above the law and that the murder of social leaders or Yukpas is not a big deal as long as they support the same law they brake. Those rancher are using all their power in order to keep that stolen land theirs, and with some criminal and indirect methods they send to kill any Yukpa leader who defy them, or corrupt them through gifts like some cows, goats and money.
Moreover, those methods have consequences and the Yukpas aren't falling for it anymore and are being moved by the lost of their leader who died for their land, the libertarian Sabino, a leader who spark hopes into the minds and spirits of the Yukpas.
Plan to exterminate the Sabino's family
The ranchers wont forgive Sabino and the resistance struggle he died for, because nowadays there are organizations that are fighting among the Yukpas rights, making sure the law is respected.
That Yukpa's resistance for their land is also a psychological struggle, because Yukpas who have been corrupted by the treasures of the city, given some power and some kind of social status, are also against those who fight for their land. It is true what some say, if you can beat them join them, and for 123 years, some Yukpas could not resist the temptations of a global culture and their treasure and joined the other side of the struggle, sometimes by being tricked, selling their land for some momentary necessities, or their lack of knowledge in terms of laws.
In addition to the rancher's psychological side, where it seem that their minds are filled with racism and classicism, where the police and military are used to do their dirty work, thinking their status of opulence, power, and impunity for 123 years has been compromised by the Yukpas resistance struggle, fear is what they have encounter, because they know that in their perijanero being, their richness comes from their stolen land and the abuses they have made to keep it that way.
They also knew this struggle would reach a point but didn't know how, when or where.
It was Sabino, his people and the organizations who in solidarity with the Yukpas struggle were growing to a point where now any social leader, or Human Rights agent, or any activist knows about the Yukpa lands and Yukpa rights. A legend that Sabino and his people were bringing back into reality, Guaicaipuro himself, the one who fought against the invasion of the colonist back in 1592.
Sabinos death and some speculations.
Sabino was found dead on the 3rd of March, his struggle made him a lot of enemies, one of them was the Yukpa chief of Tukuko Alfonso Isnopa, one that had contacts with the ranchers and the officials. Some speculations say that 600 thousand bolivares were paid to hit-men and the police in order to kill Sabino, a Yukpa leader who wanted union instead of the division Alfonso Isnopa is promoting.
This speculation has formed a controversy among the Irapa who don't want Alfonso Isnopa to represent them, dividing into other kinds of centers were they are protected by the government, who later can then be transformed into communes.
Then catch is that any tribe that is not in those centers wont get any credits, schools, roads and other aid. If Chiquitin, a Yukpa leader*, would have been able to win 64 Yukpa communities, this division would not happen, but for now, 6 fractions have been created and Isnopa got the Tukuko one, plus other two communities.
kidnapping and witness murder
Since one of the most wanted hit-man was captured by the special anti extortion and kidnapping force, a wave of violence as been released. A special witness was murdered, a cop named Ronald Petit and his son were murdered, and two kidnapping were committed, one that lasted 24 hours the other 21 days. The rumors said that they did not pay the hit-man who is in a criminal group called the Midgets of Aponte Aponte. But this kidnappings were planted in order to divert their attention to Sabino's sons.
All that time was sufficient to criminalize Sabino's tree sons but it was evident that its origins were made by the ranchers, the police and some public ministry attorneys. In the future, when the people around the cities start to care more about this kind of injustices, this would not be that common, but first it has to start by forming a strong Yukpa community and protecting the laws that were made to protect the Yukpa lands and rights.
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