Venezuela: Further Information Fear for safety/Death threats

Index Number: AMR 53/020/2004
Date Published: 28 October 2004
Categories: Americas, Venezuela

Luis Barrios, brother of Narciso Barrios, is now known to have been murdered on 20 September, allegedly by Aragua State police. Narciso Barrios was murdered in December 2003 after an argument with a drunk police officer in the bar that the brothers managed. The entire family are believed to be in grave danger.