Manuel Cristopher Figuera person
also: former intel chief, Venezuela's National Intelligence Services, Manuel Christopher Figuera, Figueroa
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obviously appears to be corrupt. None of these three experts leading the inquiry ever set foot in Venezuela while preparing the report, leading them to source their accusations of human rights abuses in the country to claim made by their fo…
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Less than one year into his stint at the helm of Venezuela's National Intelligence Services, Figueroa sided with Guaido amid the coup leader's attempted military takeover. Exposed as a failed revolt's highest collaborator, Figueroa fled to …
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And again, Leopardo Lopez is the guy basically running this from the United States. Days later, the U.S. Treasury lifted personal financial sanctions on Figueroa. Now that he was in the U.S., he's fine. They had to sanction him because he w…
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all of his assets back. Though most Venezuelans' officials do not maintain U.S. bank accounts, therefore dodging the impact of these unilateral asset freezes, a June 2019 Washington Post reported revealed that Figueroa's wife had already be…
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Uniquely susceptible to Treasury's attempt and probably used as the leverage to get him to turn on his government. While reviewing the September 2020 Venezuela human rights report, Anya discovered that virtually every accusation of human ri…
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The authors omitted any mention of his defection to Washington and his wife's bank accounts. The report's lack of credibility was further underscored by the fact that each of Figueroa's examples of alleged widespread torture and abuse occur…
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when he took over the agency. So it was the other guy, not him. And again, no pictures, no evidence, just this guy's word. The 2020 Human Rights Report relied on outright deception. At the heart of the accusations of political repression le…