Diosdado Cabello stressed that police officials must be along the Pan-American Highway to protect the safety of drivers and passers-by.
The Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, ordered the deployment of security officials along the Pan-American Highway in order to protect drivers who use this road artery that connects the Metropolitan Area of Caracas with the city of Los Teques, in Miranda.
Cabello stressed that surveillance on the Panamericana must be done from kilometer zero so that those who travel the road feel protected; In addition, it is part of his administration’s policy for crime prevention throughout the country; reviewed Latest News.
Since his appointment as head of the Interior and Justice portfolio, Diosdado Cabello has made several night tours of the so-called “peace quadrants” to see how they operate and the way in which they address the protection of citizens; which has become more palpable after the post-election protests in which almost two thousand people were arrested.
Known for years as one of the most dangerous countries in the world, Venezuela has recorded a significant decrease in homicides, but its gangs have expanded throughout Latin America and those that remain in the country extort mercilessly in the poorest neighborhoods, disrupting security.
According to experts in July 2024massive migration during the crisis also contributed, with criminals leaving in step with their potential victims. Thus, some gangs “exported” part of their elements: the best known is the Tren de Aragua, created in 2014 and which became a criminal multinational with branches in Latin America to extort, murder, prostitute and traffic drugs even dedicated to clandestine immigration and illegal mining.
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The authorities assure that it was dismantled. Its headquarters, in the Tocorón prison in Lara (west), was dismantled in the midst of an intervention in seven prisons, where other gangs operated.
And although these operations allowed the gangs to be hit and undoubtedly weakened them, they are far from having disappeared from Venezuela.
Experts persist in these mega-gangs made up of hundreds of people armed to the teeth.
“Many gangs that were dedicated to express kidnapping are now dedicated to extortion,” explains criminologist Luis Izquiel, co-author of the book Revolución de la Muerte. There is a “domain of organized crime that is focused on businesses for extortion,” agrees the director of the OVV, Roberto Briceño León.
The government also launched takeover operations in other neighborhoods dominated by gangs. In 2021, the feared Special Action Forces of the National Police (FAES) occupied La Vega and Cota 905 in Caracas, in addition to other peripheral neighborhoods, where according to complaints
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