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Who ordered the general to come on to be as close to the enemy, with that gorgeous dress, very white and flaming, as if it were the Achilles himself giving up the anger to go into battle? Well that's exactly what General Crespo did, and the result of his daring not long in coming: not even have begun military action with which he intended to settle once and for all the decimated band of El Mocho Hernández, an anonymous Sniper no official position in the history pointed a Winchester rifle and knocked him forever with a projectile of those that hurt just by looking at: a sweet 45-caliber, those who used American pioneers to bring down buffalo at 80 yards away.
The report raised at that time by the physician can read expressions Isaac Capriles coarser than scientific, one of the most impressive: "The bullet entered below the right clavicle and left him a little behind the left hip" - But was that the document that recorded the death of the controversial leader, and it preceded the official transfer from the fatal Carmelera killed in Cojedes state, to Caracas, where he arrived on April 20, 1898.
Before his transfer to the capital, the body of Joaquin Crespo, twice president of Venezuela, should be embalmed in a hurry by a crude process that lasted eight hours, was emptied, cured and treated with the few substances available, cotton stuffing and covered with wax and lime. Under these conditions was buried in the mausoleum built years before, according to the design of Victor Barret Nazarís-General in the South Cemetery.
A century after
At the edge of the third millennium, something far and of those startling events, the site chosen by General Joaquín Crespo as a last room for his remains and those of his family has lost all placidity. Since mid of the 70's, when the Southern General Cemetery arrived in its hundred years of existence, has spoken of the vast overpopulation of these areas, vandalism practices that have been detected there, as the "recycling" graves, some union and resells empty spaces where lie remains neglected by relatives. It has also been discussed and deplored the dismantling of the mausoleums, the theft of the aluminum and other metals, marbles and even the flowers, to be sold to the highest bidder.
But the grim facet of this sort of grave-sweeping army is shooting practice remains of corpses, presumably to conducting Satanic rites, other versions, which have buried in the cemetery with all the natural confirm every time they talk about the deals, selling pieces of bones that some thugs used as an amulet or "against" to ward off bullets.
Last weekend, determined to give a satisfactory answer to the relatives of deceased whose graves have been looted, the Prefecture of the Libertador municipality, the management of the Mayor's Municipal Cemeteries, Urban Security Command and National Guard The PM made a surprise operation whose results were telling: 80 arrests, recovery of several kilos of stolen materials and verification of those macabre practice: many graves had been desecrated and dismantled. The prefect Ramon Flores and cemetery manager, Richard White, a slogan coined to define brutal war is coming: vowed to "kill the vultures, black collar criminals" who prowl at night because the place.
Meanwhile, in the middle of the operation and the statements came to the mausoleum of the general collation Crespo, the most striking and pompous and perhaps also the most neglected, of the entire cemetery, and several officials who were in charge of the operation confirmed the fears, too, had been desecrated, and not now but several weeks ago. Answer which would have left everyone satisfied it not that, just days before the operation, a very well aware dropped by the side of the Forensic Medicine Division of the PTJ a delicate revelation: the corpse is not in general mausoleum.
Where is the general?
The PTJ Central nobody was able to give accurate reports about it or even confirm the news. In the Prefecture of the Libertador municipality, either: the Directorate of Intelligence had been limited to the pursuit and capture of those responsible for an offense is detected, but as far as we knew it was not judged to looters from a tomb in particular. The GN did not seem to be very aware of issues too deep; capture bandits is an everyday thing.
General Cemetery in the South itself, however, there are plenty of unofficial partners: gravediggers themselves, but happy and carefree nature of these workers often paid more to suspicions. Inquire by some rough issues amid the graves can not be pleasant, but very rewarding if you know the information to discriminate. So, we knew that the mausoleum of Joaquin Crespo is one of the most visited on the outside and also inside. For some time the tomb was broken and maimed in body-life, a mass of 1.90 meters tall and about 100 kilograms, the martyr of Carmelera kills. Species difficult to believe because, although a part of the wall and the fence surrounding the monument have been knocked down to build a tomb outside the limit of its perimeter, inside the mausoleum is closed with some chains and padlocks, a curious detail at first, very new, too new for a chapel in a state of neglect. The suspicions are dispelled by checking the dates of the last deceased buried there: Luis Enrique Capriles Crespo, April 4, 1992.
Upstairs in the main hall, may be the resting place of Anne Jacinta Crespo Capriles, just off a staircase leading to the vault that contains or should contain the remains of Joaquín Crespo. Several tracks can be seen between the ladder and the rest of the mosaic that adorns the floor. Should not remain impassable the sacred precincts of the former president? Also shown is a disposable container of soda, perhaps launched from outside. The mere suspicion remain in the background to the direct testimony, hackneyed and old, before the tomb of Joaquín Crespo and his wife have taken place around rituals tenor, and for many years the general's feet were exposed to the weather.
Today, it is absolutely necessary to approach the very intimidating and mysterious staircase mentioned above. For the outside the visitor can approach a door locked with chains, and a new lock, which communicates with the same place. Only, to close one too, collecting a dust-laden air and the sound of insects that requires no more emphasis on exploration.
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Other alternatives to seek the general, to get someone a statement, even a part of the information about his whereabouts, track their living descendants, dig harder in PTJ in Legal Medicine. The latter option-addressed, indeed, throughout the late-crumbled falso acertijo: el general Crespo había sido sacado de su tumba, es verdad, pero no por macabros asaltantes sino por una comisión de la División de Medicina Legal de la PTJ –a cuyo frente se encontraba el propio doctor Jack Castro–, a petición de los familiares y del Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural. Resultaron ser ciertas, de todas formas, algunas de las especies sacadas a la luz de manera risueña y extraoficial: los funcionarios de la Judicial sí encontraron los sellos de la tumba violentados, su tapa rodada de su sitio; el cuerpo, sepultado originalmente con su kepis, un sable y condecoraciones varias, fue hallado cubierto sólo por una especie de tejido de fique; vulgarmente, un saco de papas. Otras especies unconfirmed talk about the mutilation of the little finger of your left hand mummified body of the general will remain under custody of PTJ while making very demanding work of remodeling the magnificent mausoleum. Will they really ensure its integrity when the remodeling and general conclusion has returned from his latest tour de force Caracas? * *
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* Published 02/02/1997 under the title The crime acts of heroes and tombs.
** Two days after the appearance of this column, the Cultural Heritage Institute sent to the editor of Seven Days a letter in which the author was accused of publishing biased information. Among other things, said that "Mr. Duque (...) ignores the rescue work undertaken for months by the Institute of Cultural Heritage", and "is notorious for the recent effort of the municipal authorities and the administration itself Cemetery to improve overall services provided therein, including care and increase their vigilance. " Yes sir. He was so well kept cemetery that Mr. Duke sniffed, wandered, searched and blew bars as he felt like the mausoleum of Crespo, and no one came to ask what the hell was there. Anyway, a year later, to mark the centenary of the death of Crespo, the mausoleum was inaugurated by the then president, Rafael Caldera, and usually installed in luxurious coffin.
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