Baduel was arrested in 2009 on charges of stealing millions of dollars and later, after spending just over a year under house arrest, he was imprisoned again in January 2017 for allegedly conspiring against President Maduro, which he always denied.
The former minister had been transferred at the end of last September to a cell in El Helicoide, a police headquarters Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), and that he shared with one of his sons, Josnars, arrested in May 2020 for his alleged participation in a failed armed incursion into Venezuela.
The death certificate says “suspicion, but they do not claim that he had Covid. My father died near my brother. My brother was with him, then If so, my dad had Covid and was so bad, how did they not give him timely medical attention?“Margareth Baduel, one of the former minister’s daughters, told reporters at the Caracas main morgue.
“We do not understand how the prosecutor dares to give a news and assert that my father died of Covid when the autopsy was carried out at approximately 11 pm” on Monday, as he was informed at the morgue, he added.
On Monday afternoon, the attorney general, Tarek Saab, reported on his personal Twitter account about the death of Baduel “from a #Cardiorrespiratory strike as a result of Covid19: while the corresponding medical care was applied and received the first dose of the vaccine.”
The autopsy report states that Baduel had cerebral edema and suffered a myocardial infarctionsaid the daughter, who added that she saw him for the last time on October 2, when the former minister told her that he had received a dose, but no certificate or card proving which vaccine it was or what it was.
Cruz María Zambrano and Andreína Baduel, the wife and another of the former minister’s daughters, also expressed their doubts when they left the morgue about the official version of the death from coronavirus.
Baduel was Defense Minister and former ally of the deceased Hugo Chavez. He led the return of the then president after a brief coup in 2002. Upon leaving the post of minister in 2007, Baduel took a critical stance towards the government of Chávez and later that of Maduro.
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