Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención
The Dirección Nacional de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención ( Spanish : National Directorate for Intelligence and Defense , DISIP ) was the leading secret service in Venezuela .
It was created under the presidency of Rafael Caldera on March 19, 1969 on the basis of the Decreto Ejecutivo N ° 15 in succession to the Dirección General de Policía (DIGEPOL). DISIP was responsible for internal security and was subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. Since October 2009, the DISIP was headed by the Arab-born Venezuelan Tareck El Aissami as Minister of the Interior and Justice. DISIP officers wore black uniforms or civilian clothes and drove yellow and black cars. On December 4, 2009, President Hugo Chávez announced that DISIP had been operating under the name Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional (SEBIN) since that day .
Cantaura massacre
On October 4, 1982, in the northeastern coastal department of Anzoátegui, not far from the small town of Cantaura , there was fighting between special units of the army , the air force and agents of the DISIP secret police with the then Maoist guerrilla movement Bandera Roja-Frente Amèrico Silva (BR-FAS). 23 guerrillas were killed in the fighting , eleven of them with traces of shots in the neck and torture.
Web links
- Human Rights Developments: Venezuela , 2001 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención - Evolución Histórica (Spanish), accessed on February 9, 2012
- ↑ Disip se llamará Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia (Spanish) of December 4, 2009, accessed on February 9, 2012
- ^ End of impunity , jW of October 6, 2009.