The younger Gallegos said her grandfather's tomb had been “ransacked.” Gallegos and Medina were interred at the “Cementerio General del Sur”, which once was the main cemetery in Caracas but has in recent decades become surrounded by one of the most violent slums in the world (perhaps aptly named “The Cemetery”) and fallen into lawlessness and disrepair.īurials at the cemetery are usually accompanied by gunfire (often met with more gunfire from rivals of the deceased) and press reports tell of rituals carried out there involving human remains. The news came only hours after reports of a similar attack on the tomb of President Isaias Medina Angarita (1941-1945), who died in 1953. President Romulo Gallegos (1946-1948) had been resting in peace since his death in 1969, but his tomb and body was robbed Wednesday night, according to his grand-daughter Theotiste Gallegos. In Venezuela, Not Even Dead Presidents are SafeĬARACAS - Troubled Venezuela woke up to a new horror: the tombs of two successive Presidents - including the first to be elected by popular vote - had been desecrated. In Venezuela, Not Even Dead Presidents are Safe.
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