Are the reports from the area of ​​power about crimes and other illegal actions credible, so that there are versions according to the will of those who ordered them? There are circumstances where it is believed that the intentions are to try to change the conditions under which the events or actions occurred, before there is a reliable investigation; or just to reduce the pressure of a demanding investigation, and to reduce everything to the identification of the author of the material. Diario EL UNIVERSO’s interviews with Lena Hurtado, Cecilia Calderón and Martha Roldós, last week, on reports directed from the space of power, were illustrative.

The cases of General Gabela, in prison, and Fernando Villavicencio a few weeks ago are also known, and – in addition – there is also the perversity of wanting to divert the investigation with accusations of bad faith.

And they happened in all times.

The assassination of the Marshal of Ayacucho, Antonio José de Sucre, aged 35, in Berruecos, Province of Pasto, Department of Cauca, on June 4, 1830, to prevent him from reaching Quito, as this would disrupt the plans of the Colombian generals to consolidate power, and General Flores in Ecuador, as its first president, was never properly investigated.

The assassination of García Moreno on August 6, 1875, a few days after his third presidential term had begun, when he advanced to the Carondelet Palace, the seat of government, by a group of opponents led by Faustina Ray, who attacked him with a machete, and shot at close range by three conspirators who followed him with revolvers. Rayo tried to escape but was caught by military personnel and shot dead by a corporal at close range.

Coincidences. President John Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas.

The author of the material was identified as Lee Harvey Oswald. Already deprived of his liberty, in the basement of the police headquarters in Dallas, when Oswald was taken to testify in court, he was killed by the owner of the night burlesque club, Jack Ruby. In September 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone when he killed Kennedy by firing three shots from a school book store in Texas. This conclusion would be supported by previous investigations by the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Dallas Police Department. Was it really verified or should the American people have overcome their uncertainty and accepted the version?

On Sunday, January 28, 1912, in Quito, a mob attacked the Panopticon, killed General Eloy Alfaro Delgado, his brother Medardo, his nephew Flavio, the journalist Luciano Coral, and the officers Manuel Serrano Rendo and Ulpiano Páez, and then dragged them away and burned them in El Ejido . On January 25, General Pedro J. Montero was mutilated, dragged and cremated in Guayaquil.

Would the intellectual authorship be from the mafia? Or the winners of a brutal murder, part of the liberal bourgeoisie? (OR)