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The Murder of Danilo Anderson took place on 18 November 2004, in Caracas, Venezuela. Danilo Baltasar Anderson (born 29 October 1966) was a Venezuelan environmental state prosecutor investigating more than 400 people accused of crimes against the state and Venezuelan people in the failed 2002 coup d'état attempt. Anderson, 38, was assassinated on his way home from attending postgraduate classes. In 2005 several people were convicted of masterminding the assassination, though the investigation had flaws. Anderson was born in Caracas and was raised in the slums. In the 1990s, he was a student agitator participating in clashes with police weekly with fellow demonstrators. He graduated in law from Central University of Venezuela in 1995, specializing later in criminology and environmental law. He worked as a lawyer for several firms, and was a general tax inspector between 1993 and 2000. He was the first official to bring a case for environmental offenses in Caracas. Anderson described himself as being a radical leftist and was a supporter of Hugo Chávez. His murder shocked Venezuelan opinion across the political spectrum. ==Background== Danilo Anderson was a high-profile prosecutor that participated often in political trials. Following the failure of the coup in April 2002, he prosecuted for shooting deaths of the coup and those who signed the Carmona Decree. Many accused Anderson of extorting money from those he threatened to prosecute in order to have their charges dropped.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/138069.pdf )〕 Leaders of the political movements opposed to President Chávez had also turned to economic means to achieve their political goals following the 2002 coup attempt. For two months from early December 2002 they organized the Venezuelan general strike of 2002-2003, dominated by the near-closure of Venezuelan state oil company PdVSA as management locked out staff and a key oil transport route was blocked. The strike ultimately failed in its attempt to topple the government, but caused acute economic problems, with GDP falling by a quarter in early 2003, and deepened the deeply conflictive political situation resulting from the April coup. Following the collapse of the strike, opposition politicians then focused on constitutional efforts to seek the ouster of President Chávez, taking advantage of the 1999 Constitution's provision of a recall referendum. Widespread international attention focused on the run-up to the Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004 in August 2004. President Chávez won the vote by a substantial majority with 59% of the total. In 2004, a few extremists who opposed Chávez from outside of the country called for the use of violence to overthrow the government. In May 2004 Venezuelan security forces caught a group of over one hundred Colombians dressed in military uniforms on a bus in the El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda part of Caracas. They had been based at a farm belonging to Roberto Alonso, a Cuban based in Miami. Allegedly, the group had been training to carry out attacks on government targets. On 25 July 2004, from his exile in Miami, former President Carlos Andrés Pérez declared "Violence will allow us to remove him. That's the only way we have... () must die like a dog, because he deserves it"〔''BBC'', 13 August 2004, (Analysis: Chavez at eye of storm )〕 to the Venezuelan daily ''El Nacional''. On October 25, 2004, famous Venezuelan TV actor and former military friend of Chávez, Orlando Urdaneta, hinted his support of the assassination of Chávez on Miami television. Cuban exile groups in Florida had expressed that they would support anti-communist groups in Venezuela.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of Danilo Anderson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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