Venezuela: Further information on Fear for Safety, Cesar Emilio Machado.
At midnight on 28 June, Rush Alexander Valera was shotand killed by unknown men near his house in the city of Maracay, Aragua State. He was a key witness to the apparently motiveless shooting and beating of César Emilio Machado by the Girardot Municipal Police in Aragua State on 21 December 2001.