Caracas – Luis Velásquez Alvaray, former Venezuelan and former deputy Magistrate, died on Thursday, May 15 in Costa Rica After a period of disease. As reported by the reporters of Mérida, Velásquez Alvaray, who was also a professor at the University of Los Andes (ULA), died at 71 years of age.
Lawyer, Sociologist and social communicator, served as a magistrate of the Constitutional Chamber of the High Court, executive director of the Magistracy and President of the Judicial Commission. Luis Velásquez Alvaray was also elected deputy of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to the National Assembly for the Mérida State for the 2000-2004 legislative period.
Within the training of the deceased Venezuelan also highlights aspects such as the specialization in Community Law, of the University of Salamanca (Spain) and Master Scientarum in Political Science, of the University of Los Andes (Venezuela). He was also director of the newspaper Border, of the Mérida state.
In 2006, the former Magistrate denounced the existence of a powerful band within the Judiciary headed by Judge Maykel Moreno Pérez, under the protection of the then vice president José Vicente Rangel. After this, he was asylum in Costa Rica.
Questions to the regime
Luis Velásquez Alvaray questioned the policies of the Nicolás regime Ripe. As a newspaper of the newspaper The Nationalthe lawyer wrote in February of this year: “It is absolutely documented by civil society, international organizations and various legal research centers in the world, which in a quarter of a century have destroyed democratic institutionality and the rule of law, demonstrating daily violations, until it structures most of the steps in crimes against humanity.”
In that sense, the former Magistrate said that those individual responsible for criminal actions “are fully identified.” He spared Nicolás Maduro’s call to reform the Venezuelan Constitution through a commission composed of “who have been his executioners.”
