Ricardo Salgado
With the intention that his and his family's death looks like an accident, the screws on the wheels of the car belonging to Ricardo Salgado were loosened on Good Friday. Salgado is an active member of the political analysis team of the National Front of Popular Resistance, FNRP, and is also involved in other tasks of the resistance. He has written over 100 articles against the coup since July 2009.
"On Good Friday, I left my house to go to the supermarket and when going uphill on the climb that leads towards STIBYS, upon entering the Armed Forces Boulevard, I felt I couldn't maneuver my car, I slowed down and once in the Boulevard, 50 to 70 meters later, the left front wheel of the car came out of its axis and the car fell. "
The attack was not finalized due to Salgado's ability to maneuver the vehicle prior to the occurrence of a fatal ending, which would have ended in his and his family's murder, but before the public eye, it would have appeared as an accident due to mechanical causes and not a political crime.
The victim contacted experts in mechanics, who stated that the wheels of the cars do not loosen, depending on use, otherwise, it would happen an immense amount of times and definitely someone did the job of loosening the screws, " It was not a bad joke, it was something fully intended, "he said in the moments, when he submitted the complaint to the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, COFADEH.
Previously, he and his wife had received mysterious calls on their cell phones. When they answered them, no one spoke at the other end of the line, but, for a while, kept the communication without saying a word.
Experts in mechanics state that car wheels do not loosen depending on use
A few days before his car was overturned, an unknown vehicle parked in front of his home, a situation that never happened since he lives in the area.
Although the situation is difficult and has all the characteristics of being life-threatening, Salgado said, "I have no fear, I have principles, I have convictions. It seems that the people who run the state security forces have not understood the historical lessons. Usually, this kind of thing does not persuade anyone to stop doing what they are doing and it is also not our case. "
However, his point is that people who do this sort of thing have no conscience, are basically mercenaries from the top to bottom and there is no reason on their side.
He added that it seems to him like a follow-up work, a highly structured work, work that is not casual, "Imagine that we had a group of boys loosening the tires of all cars. We would have a series of accidents, that is a well-run task and there are other similar precedents, which is why we are facing a possible pattern of a covert repression model, used to send messages to people on political activity. "
Over the past two months, Salgado has written about human rights violations and the impunity with which they are working, as also about the need to unify the movements within the FNRP as one of the mechanisms for achieving a defense strategy to a systematic organized campaign of selective repression, that is very well structured .
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