Photo Leak Confirms Bias in the 60th Prosecutor’s Office Favoring a Timber Businessman: Farmers Face Omission and Criminalization in Canaguá.
Author: La Tabla/Data Journalism Platform November 13, 2025
The recent leak of a secretly captured photograph during the indictment held on Tuesday, November 11, at the 60th Prosecutor’s Office, located in the former headquarters of the Attorney General’s Office in La Candelaria, reveals new signs of bias.
The image, taken in the prosecutor’s private office while farmers Ramón Alirio Gómez, Jesús Enrique González Urbina, Giovanni Filimon Carrizalez Rondón, and Aníbal José Altuna Flores were being charged, was delivered to timber businessman Homero González and spread on social media to publicly criminalize the farming families who have been cultivating that land for five years.
The process, initiated in 2022 against farmers occupying National lands in Pedraza, Barinas, has been marked by a lack of notification to the accused, exclusion of favorable technical reports, and the complainant’s parallel strategy to carry out evictions.
It has also revealed a pattern of institutional dispossession against these families who produce food on a property declared vacant.
Alongside the judicial and administrative offensive led by timber businessman Ramón Homero González, the 60th National Prosecutor’s Office with agrarian jurisdiction has shown evident bias at various moments throughout the process.
1. Investigation Without Right to Defense
The indictment against four farmers is based on a complaint filed in March 2022. For over three years, the accused were never notified of judicial actions against them, depriving them of their right to defense and due process.
2. Complainant’s Parallel Strategy
González has simultaneously activated administrative, judicial, and criminal routes to consolidate his control over the property. This tactic has allowed him to alternate mechanisms to execute eviction and advance in seizing the land, using each instance as backup in case one fails.
3. Omitted Technical Report
In September 2024, a technical team from the Public Ministry, led by the then 60th prosecutor, conducted an inspection at the site. The report confirmed the peaceful, legitimate, and productive occupation by the farming families. However, this document does not appear in the current case file, despite favoring the occupants.
4. Recent Leak
Adding to this are elements like the leak of a photograph related to the case, which reinforces suspicions of manipulation and bias within the judicial process.
5. Pattern of Institutional Dispossession
The Canaguá case is not isolated. It responds to a broader pattern that combines:
– Criminalization of agricultural production.
– Judicialization of rural poverty.
– Covert privatization of national lands.
– Protection of timber interests under fraudulent legal figures.
The 60th Prosecutor’s Office, far from protecting farmers’ rights as intended, has served as a tool to consolidate dispossession. The Ombudsman’s Office, instead of defending the victims, has acted as a complicit mediator for the businessman.
The exclusion of favorable evidence, the lack of notification, and the multiple strategies of the complainant create a picture of bias that raises doubts about the transparency of the 60th Prosecutor’s Office. The Canaguá case opens an urgent debate about the protection of farmers’ rights and the need to ensure impartial processes in land conflicts.