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time, as if to add insult to injury with an incredible display of arrogance and contempt
for the law, the “PRD Special Commando” had thousands of flyers distributed freely
throughout the city, showing its members firing on the crowd. At a press conference
on May 17, Barletta claimed not to have seen this inflammatory sheet, which La
Prensa termed “an apology of violence”, and although he did deplore the regrettable
incidents that had taken place, he hinted that ADO was responsible for printing the
fliers. “I can assure you that the UNADE did not produce that poster. It may have been
produced elsewhere”, Barletta claimed cynically and irresponsibly on that occasion.
See exhibit 39.

“Responsibility for the violence. Violence would have been
impossible without the knowledge and approval of Fraudito
Barletta (Dr. Nicolás Ardito Barletta). The commandos lack

authority to make so momentous a decision behind the candidate’s
back. It was to no avail that later, at a press conference, he deplored
the tragedy whose chif co-author he had been. As for the rest,
foreign newsmen were most impressed by his ability to dissimulate

and by the sophisticated hypocrisy he exuded; all the same, they
remained convinced that he was one of the major guilty parties. The
others were the members of the General Staff. Otherwise, it is

impossible to understand the National Guard’s attitude during the
disturbances, the strategic withdrawal of the Guard’s detachment
inside the Legislative Palace a few minutes before the shooting
started, the guilty complicity of the entire corps –on orders issued

by its commanding officer–, while hoodlums beat on and killed
ADO demonstrators armed only with paper flags and lapel buttons.
Upon being questioned by foreign journalist, Guard officers replied
with an explanation worthy of a moron and certainly intended for

one: ‘this is a scuffle between two political factions and the Guard
had no reason to intervene.’ The blood of José Angel Vega
Gutiérrez and of the other wounded (one of whom would
subsequently die) stained forever the uniforms of General Staff

officers and the hands of Fraudito Barletta. And, as in the case of
Lady Macbeth, no amount of water will ever wash it off.
In fact, they have managed to get the murderers beyond the reach
of public curiosity and outrage. Those murderers (seen in the now
famous photographs and in American network news footage as they

fired on the crows) are now in Miraflores, in the barracks of the
ingenious contractors of the Van Dam Bridge. From where, you
may rest assured, they shall bring them out again whenever they
need them. Unless they quietly dispose of them”.