Venezuela to Request Extraditions in Danilo Anderson Case

[Judi Lynn]

Sunday 21 November 2010
Venezuela to Request Extraditions in Danilo Anderson Case

CARACAS - The Venezuelan Attorney General''s Office announced it would immediately request the extradition of two individuals from the United States for their alleged involvement in the murder of former public prosecutor Danilo Anderson.

The extradition request will be issued for Johan Humberto Peña and Pedro Wladimir Lander, for whom an arrest warrant was issued in January 2005, according to a press release from the Public Ministry.

The extradition request will be based on the Criminal Code, the existence of a bilateral extradition treaty between Venezuela and the United States (signed in 1923) and the legal requirements to try the two citizens, the press release said.

The assassination of Anderson on November 18, 2004, still makes headlines in Venezuela, due to the impossibility of trying all of the perpetrators, including the mastermind.

More:
http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/november/21/latinamerica10112103.htm

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Johan Humberto Peña

(Can't find Lander's image, yet)

[Judi Lynn]

1. To refresh your memory, images, info. on the assassination.

To refresh your memory, images, info. on the assassination.

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Danilo Anderson, his bombed vehicle.
1 December 2004

On a Caracas street, no matter which, a car unexpectedly exploded getting instantly and completely burned. Everything was devoured by fire. The scene, fitting the standards of Hollywood violence, was not being produced in a Warner Studio specialized in bringing, through drawing, the indescribable into the movie. The production was being real. Horror seized hold of the avenue. Commotion spread within the ashes. Bewilderment had hurt all Venezuela in the form of tragedy.

Inside that flame-consumed car, Attorney at law Danilo Anderson was burned to death . He was the lawyer in charge of the investigation of the April 2002 coup, which temporarily overthrew President Chávez from office, and also of the criminal assault to the Cuban Embassy, which occurred simultaneously in the style of a terrorist party. Unlike the position of the Supreme Court of Justice, the verdict of which was that there had not been any coup on that April 11, as though its sentence could replace the reality of the events in the public knowledge, not only the events of daily life in Venezuela, but also those in the present world, that young lawyer was doing a work cut out for himself in order to establish the causality of the facts and the accountability of their authors before the law.

Anderson never figured out that doing his legal work could ever lead him to death. So confident he was of the transparency of what he was doing, of his ethical behavior incapable of distorting the truth so as to harm somebody else, that he was never worried about his personal security; despite his ever-growing knowledge of the terrorist nature of the methods used by those who prepared the coup; of even the scenes shown in «Puente Llaguno, CLAVES de una masacre» - an Angel Palacios’s movie - which crudely and unquestionably reveal, with direct testimonies, the sophisticated and wicked criminal psychology of the authors. Danilo died without taking any preventive action. And above all, as a brave man, without any fear of his killers.

The best weapon of his killers was his confidence and defenselessness. He was attending some postgraduate course classes. Did they poison the gas in his car? Did they put a high power bomb in his car? While I write these notes, the investigations have not yet disclosed what really happened. He started the vehicle just as he did everyday without the least premonition that he’d be wrapped up in a hell of flames soon after.

More:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article30201.html

http://www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Camioneta-de-Danilo-Anderson.jpg

[Judi Lynn]

2. Taken from a Spanish language article, info. on these 2:

This is a google translation:

They are in United States
MP seek extradition of 2 people linked to death of Danilo Anderson
November 19, 2010

~snip~
A Johan Humberto Peña and Pedro Lander Wladimir they were issued an arrest warrant for the alleged commission of the crime of Murder as perpetrators, and sanctioned by the Penal Code.

The public prosecutor Danilo Anderson, who carried out the investigation of the coup of April 2002, was killed after the truck burst which moved, at the height of the Las Sciences Santa Monica, the night of November 18, 2004.

Before his death, Anderson was called to testify to the 400 signatories of the Carmona Decree, Through which the coup leaders established a dictatorship that abolished the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the government for 48 hours.

Allegedly, Lander and Peña participated in the design and placement, respectively, of the explosive device which was consummated with the attack. Law enforcement agencies seized in their homes: C-4, fuses, grenades, pistols, ammunition, bombs, mortars, assault rifles, with characteristics consistent elements to make explosive devices as used in the act in which Anderson lost his life .

More:
http://www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve/nacionales/ministerio-publico-solicitara-extradicion-2-personas-vinculadas-muerte-danilo-anderson/