{"id":2364,"date":"2015-01-17T11:41:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T11:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armando.info\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2015-01-17T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T11:41:02","slug":"the-coast-is-clear-in-the-green-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armando.info\/en\/the-coast-is-clear-in-the-green-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The coast is clear in the green house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cucuta.-<\/I>The \r\nwalls are stained by grease and black mold, and the paint is chipping. The house \r\nis entirely green, with the exception of a few borders. It has two windows and \r\nthree doors. They are white, made of steel and also dirty. In the upper part of \r\nthe house, there are 12 concrete pillars for the construction of a second floor, \r\nwhich was never completed.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

If \r\nyou are in Venezuela and you want to get to the green house, number 8-98, you \r\nhave to cross the Colombian border through Tachira state, get into Norte de \r\nSantander department (northeast part of Colombia) and walk around El Callej\u00f3n <\/I>neighborhood in the city of \r\nCucuta until you get to avenue 9. In there, the big trees in the sidewalk shade \r\nthe street in a very sunny day with temperatures that go up to \r\n33\u00b0C.<\/p>\n\n\n

-Is \r\nthat where Nicolas Maduro lived?<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

-Why \r\ndo you ask? - a mechanic asked with suspicion. He works in one of the seven \r\ngarages in the block. He doesn\u2019t want to say it so he asks another \r\ncolleague.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

--How \r\nwould I know? Ask over there \u2013 The other man answered, laughing mischievously \r\nand pointing at the mechanics in the garage next door.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

There\u2019s \r\nalso silence over there, then, after a few seconds, one of the employees breaks \r\nit and nods his head. He doesn\u2019t say anything else.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

***<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

In \r\nEl Callej\u00f3n<\/I> there is an open secret \r\ncirculating: The current president of Venezuela was there; some say \u2013neighbors \r\nand Venezuelan deputies- that he lived there in the green house at times. In \r\nfact, it is something that people are discreetly talking about in there. Some \r\nbusiness owners will look down and won\u2019t give any information. One of them said: \r\n\u201cPeople are afraid (\u2026) Rumor has it that some neighbors were threatened so they \r\nwouldn\u2019t talk.\u201d The fear spreads around that area in Cucuta where everyday life \r\nproceeds without further ado: People will take chairs from their houses and sit \r\non the sidewalk so that they can chat with their neighbors; there are bakeries, \r\ngrocery shops, garages, hotels, pharmacies. There is the Saint Martin Church and \r\nthe Antonio Mari\u00f1o School.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

It \r\nis common knowledge in that town that in the country next door, Venezuela, the \r\nnationality of the President is questioned and, as a consequence, the legitimacy \r\nof his government. That is why politicians and reporters visit that particular \r\nspot of Cucuta in the search for answers related to that \r\nhouse.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

The \r\nhouse belonged to Emma Moros, Nicolas Maduro\u2019s aunt, who passed away due to a \r\nheart attack six years ago. The neighbors said that she used to make an effort \r\nto take care of it, that she would paint it every December. However, ever since \r\nher passing, it has been deteriorating little by little. It was put under the \r\ncare of Nelson David Moros-Toscano, Emma\u2019s nephew and Maduro\u2019s cousin. He was \r\nborn in Cucuta on 12th January, 1976. He has a technical degree in \r\nelectronics and, by the year 2007, he was living in Las Palmas Avenue in \r\nCaracas.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

The \r\nneighbors described him as a tall and robust man, like Maduro. Some assured that \r\nMaduro and he were not on speaking terms. Others said that he gets benefits from \r\nbeing Maduro\u2019s relative. \u201cOnce he said that he couldn\u2019t understand who (the \r\nVenezuelan-Colombian) border police thought they were because they didn\u2019t let \r\nhim cross the border with a beer crate. That they left him alone after he told \r\nthem that he was Maduro\u2019s cousin.\u201d Said someone who, as most of the ones \r\ninterviewed, wants to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

***<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

October \r\n26, 2013 was an unusual day in El \r\nCallej\u00f3n<\/I>. There were microphones and cameras everywhere in Avenue 9. \r\nDeputies from the Venezuelan opposition arrived in there, determined to show \r\nthat the president is Colombian. Walter M\u00e1rquez, Abelardo D\u00edaz, Homero Ruiz, \r\nLeomagno Flores, Luis Barrag\u00e1n, William D\u00e1vila and Mar\u00eda Corina Machado \u2013who was \r\nstripped off her parliamentary immunity by the government supporters\u2019 caucus in \r\nthe National Assembly- held a press conference in front of the green house where \r\n\u2013they announced then and there- would lead them to the truth. \u201cNicol\u00e1s Maduro \r\nwas raised here\u201d, M\u00e1rquez affirmed in that opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

That \r\nsame year, Br\u00edgida Salinas, an 80-year-old lady that lives nearby, reported to \r\nthe Colombian channel RCN that Maduro had lived with Emma and that he was back \r\nduring summer break. Now, months later, she speaks hurriedly and full of \r\ndread:<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

-Did \r\nyou know Nicolas Maduro?<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

-Yes. \r\nI used to see him play outside but he came from Caracas. He was born in Caracas- \r\nshe announced and went back home.<\/p>\n\n\n

Isabel \r\nDur\u00e1n, de 74 a\u00f1os, y algunos pocos vecinos, cuentan sin titubeos que lo vieron \r\npaseando en las calles del barrio cuando su madre, Teresa Moros Acevedo, lo \r\nllevaba a casa de su t\u00eda Emma, quien era la directora del colegio San Jos\u00e9. La \r\nrecuerdan alta, de contextura gruesa, con el cabello oscuro y corto por encima \r\nde los hombros. \u201cDo\u00f1a Emma era Maduro sin bigote\u201d, dice Silvana Garc\u00eda, una de \r\nsus exalumnas.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Despu\u00e9s de \r\nla adolescencia, no lo vieron m\u00e1s. Maduro ni siquiera regresar\u00eda para asistir al \r\nfuneral de su t\u00eda \u2013cuando falleci\u00f3 el 10 de mayo de 2008\u2013, seg\u00fan la \r\ninvestigaci\u00f3n realizada por el diputado M\u00e1rquez para tratar de establecer su \r\nsupuesta doble nacionalidad.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Las \r\npruebas son estas, de acuerdo a M\u00e1rquez: un facs\u00edmil del Acta de Bautismo de su \r\nmadre, Teresa, con fecha de 01 de junio de 1929 y ubicada en el libro 1, folio \r\n195 de la parroquia San Antonio de Padua (C\u00facuta). \u201cEl Registro Civil en \r\nColombia se inici\u00f3 en el a\u00f1o 1936, por lo que las actas de bautismo anteriores a \r\nesa fecha son el medio de prueba id\u00f3neo para demostrar el nacimiento\u201d, se\u00f1ala un \r\ninforme elaborado por el historiador y pol\u00edtico tachirense y, para m\u00e1s se\u00f1as, \r\nexembajador de Venezuela en India del gobierno de Hugo \r\nCh\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

De ser \r\ncierto, Maduro, si vivi\u00f3 en C\u00facuta, tambi\u00e9n ser\u00eda colombiano: la Ley de ese pa\u00eds \r\nindica que los hijos de personas nacidas en Colombia tienen la nacionalidad si \r\nse domicilian en territorio colombiano o si se registran en una oficina \r\nconsular. Y no es un asunto menor: de ser colombiano o contar con cualquier otra \r\nnacionalidad, adem\u00e1s de la venezolana, no puede ser presidente de la Rep\u00fablica \r\nde Venezuela, porque la Constituci\u00f3n nacional lo proh\u00edbe en su art\u00edculo \r\n227.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

En esos \r\ncasos, los aspirantes a la Presidencia deben renunciar a sus otras \r\nnacionalidades \u2013y quedarse exclusivamente con la venezolana\u2013 antes de \r\npostularse, explican los abogados Luis Enrique Ferrer (especialista en Derecho y \r\nPol\u00edtica Internacional) y Jes\u00fas Silva \r\n(constitucionalista).<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Acuciado \r\npor las dudas \u2013dudas que, por cierto, desde 2013 han cedido en la agenda p\u00fablica \r\nde la oposici\u00f3n\u2013, Maduro dice que Teresa naci\u00f3 en Rubio (estado T\u00e1chira), un \r\npueblo fronterizo que est\u00e1 a unos 27 kil\u00f3metros de C\u00facuta. Y as\u00ed lo apunt\u00f3 \u00e9l \r\nmismo en 1994 en su Acta de Defunci\u00f3n, presentada ante la Primera Autoridad \r\nCivil del municipio Sucre del estado Miranda. Por eso el diputado M\u00e1rquez lo \r\nacusa tambi\u00e9n de aportar informaci\u00f3n falsa para un documento \r\noficial.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

***<\/B><\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Aunque en \r\nEl Callej\u00f3n lo recuerdan, Maduro no menciona sus vacaciones all\u00e1 cuando habla de \r\nsu infancia. \u201cSoy caraque\u00f1o de nacimiento, crianza y de vida, de lucha, de \r\ntodo\u201d, dijo en su primera entrevista como presidente encargado, realizada por el \r\nperiodista Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez del canal Venevisi\u00f3n. Solo habla de la parroquia El \r\nValle, ubicada al sur de la ciudad, como el escenario de su \r\nni\u00f1ez.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

\u201c\u00c9l es \r\ncolombiano. La mam\u00e1 es cucute\u00f1a y el pap\u00e1 es oca\u00f1ero [de otra ciudad del mismo \r\ndepartamento] (\u2026) \u00bfC\u00f3mo lo s\u00e9? Si eso todo el mundo lo sabe. Sali\u00f3 en la prensa \r\ny todo\u201d, dice una se\u00f1ora que conversa con su amiga en la puerta de su vivienda \r\nen la cuadra donde est\u00e1 la casa verde. Los habitantes de El Callej\u00f3n le dan \r\ncr\u00e9dito a lo publicado por reconocidos medios colombianos como RCN<\/I>, El Tiempo<\/I>, El Espectador<\/I> y La Opini\u00f3n<\/I>, que confirmaron en \r\nla Registradur\u00eda \u2013que ejerce las funciones de Registro Civil en Colombia\u2013 que la \r\nc\u00e9dula colombiana de Teresa Moros es 20.007.077, expedida el 9 de diciembre de \r\n1956 en la ciudad de Bogot\u00e1. Y que Nicol\u00e1s Maduro Garc\u00eda, el padre, se gradu\u00f3 de \r\nbachiller en 1947 en el Colegio \r\nNacional Jos\u00e9 Eusebio Caro, de Oca\u00f1a, a unas tres horas de \r\nC\u00facuta.<\/p>\n\n\n

El morbo y \r\nel miedo se han instalado en El Callej\u00f3n con el enigma sobre las ra\u00edces \r\ncolombianas de Nicol\u00e1s Maduro Moros. Pero hasta aquellos vecinos que se dicen \r\nconvencidos de que Maduro es colombiano, no lo tienen en alta estima. \u201cFreg\u00f3 en \r\nVenezuela y tambi\u00e9n trata de fregar aqu\u00ed, porque a nosotros nos ha perjudicado \r\nmuch\u00edsimo ese se\u00f1or\u201d, dice Isabel Dur\u00e1n. Critican el cierre nocturno de la \r\nfrontera (entre las 10 de la noche y las 5 de la ma\u00f1ana) decretado por el \r\ngobierno venezolano desde agosto pasado. El objetivo es combatir el contrabando \r\nque se produce con la venta de art\u00edculos venezolanos en Colombia hasta 10 veces \r\npor encima de su precio oficial, debido a la brecha generada por el control \r\ncambiario aplicado desde 2003 en Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Esa medida \r\nconvirti\u00f3 a la frontera en un caos: hay militares por todos lados, que decomisan \r\nlos productos a los viajeros que quieren pasar al lado colombiano. Hay tr\u00e1fico, \r\nmucho. Y personas cruzando a pie, porque es m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido. Los roductos decomisados \r\n(alimentos, art\u00edculos de limpieza) est\u00e1n apilados en montones que custodia la \r\nGuardia Nacional.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Los \r\nciudadanos dicen que eso afect\u00f3 el tradicional negocio fronterizo. Por eso lo \r\nrechazan: \u201cQu\u00e9denselo\u201d, \u201cMejor que no resulte colombiano\u201d, \u201cNo demuestren nada \r\nde su nacionalidad\u201d, son algunas de sus palabras.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

El \r\nmalestar se extiende por el resto de Colombia de acuerdo con un estudio \r\nrealizado por la empresa de opini\u00f3n y estudios de mercado Gallup en octubre que \r\nindica que es la figura p\u00fablica de mayor rechazo en el pa\u00eds: 86% de los 600 \r\nconsultados por esa firma en las cinco principales ciudades (Bogot\u00e1, Medell\u00edn, \r\nCali, Barranquilla y Bucaramanga) afirm\u00f3 tener una imagen desfavorable del \r\npresidente venezolano.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

***<\/B><\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Cuando \r\nEmma Moros muri\u00f3 no hab\u00eda herederos: nunca tuvo hijos ni se cas\u00f3. Ese a\u00f1o el \r\naval\u00fao de la casa era por 40 millones 530 mil pesos y cuatro a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, en \r\n2012, cuando a\u00fan se defin\u00eda la sucesi\u00f3n de los bienes, aument\u00f3 su valor a 94 \r\nmillones 230 mil pesos, seg\u00fan un documento expedido por el juzgado s\u00e9ptimo civil \r\nmunicipal de C\u00facuta. La Cooperativa Interdepartamental Familiar de Servicios, \r\nSerintercoop, asumi\u00f3 como acreedor hereditario, debido a una deuda hipotecaria \r\nde 7 millones de pesos. Son documentos in\u00e9ditos de la investigaci\u00f3n \r\nparlamentaria de M\u00e1rquez.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Nelson \r\nMoros, el sobrino de Emma que ahora est\u00e1 a cargo del inmueble, es hijo de Jos\u00e9 \r\nMar\u00eda Moros Acevedo, hermano de Emma y Teresa. Nelson, como los dem\u00e1s familiares \r\ncolombianos de Maduro, mantiene bajo su perfil: no contest\u00f3 a las solicitudes de \r\nentrevista. Casi no lo ven por El Callej\u00f3n, dicen los vecinos. La casa est\u00e1 \r\nalquilada: nadie de la familia Moros reside all\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Una ni\u00f1a \r\nvive con su madre en una de las habitaciones. Sale al llamado de una de las \r\npuertas.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

--\u00bfEst\u00e1 tu \r\nmam\u00e1?<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

--No, \r\nllega en la noche.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

--\u00bfVives \r\naqu\u00ed?<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

--S\u00ed, \r\nalquilada.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

--\u00bfConoces \r\na Nicol\u00e1s Maduro?<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

--No.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

--\u00bfQui\u00e9n \r\nles alquila la casa?<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

--La \r\nse\u00f1ora Miriam (madre de Nelson). Ella no est\u00e1 aqu\u00ed, vive en \r\nCaracas.<\/p>\n\n

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