This Monday Celsa Bautista was appointed as Minister for the Penitentiary Servicereplacing Mirelys Contreras, reported the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro.
Through his account on the social network Twitter, the Head of state He specified that with the appointment of Vice Admiral Celsa Bautista, the process of “construction of a prison system with broad respect for Human Rights” will continue.
«I appointed Vice Admiral Celsa Bautista as Minister of Popular Power for the Penitentiary Service, so that with her experience the construction of a penitentiary system with broad respect for Human Rights continues. I thank Mirelys Contreras for her work at the head of this office,” reported the head of state.
Likewise, the national President thanked the work carried out by Mirelys Contreras, who was in charge of the penitentiary office.
Vice Admiral Celsa Bautista
Vice Admiral Bautista Ontiveros has just served as Director General of the Human Resources Office of the Ministry for Interior Relations, Justice and Peace, according to the designation made by Minister Remigio Ceballos on September 22, 2021, as published in Official Gazette 42,218.
Bautista, also served as General Director of Social Assistance of the Ministry of People’s Power of the Office of the Presidency and Monitoring of Government Management, in 2012. As well as, General Director, in charge, of the Human Resources Management Office for the Ministry of Interior Relations, Justice and Peace.
Likewise, she was Military, Naval and Air Attaché to the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Ecuador, the Kingdom of Belgium and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The Ministry for the Penitentiary Service
The Ministry for the Penitentiary Service was created by then-President Hugo Chávez on July 26, 2011. He had previously commented on it to Eleazar Díaz Rangel, director of Últimas Noticias, in whose pages they published several reports about a beating inflicted on several private individuals. of freedom detained in the Cicpc-El Rosal, with a balance of three deaths: Pedro Rivero, William Pérez and Rubén Arnal.
On that occasion (May 2012), the then deputy director of the Cicpc, Albis Pinto, told journalists that the three inmates had died from drug withdrawal. But, a witness interviewed by Últimas Noticias rejected that version, as he said he had heard the three inmates being beaten with a bat, two of whom died near him; the third died at the Domingo Luciani hospital in El Llanito.
Two months after that event, Chávez swore in Iris Varela as prime minister of the Penitentiary Service, while the judicial system prosecuted six Cicpc officials for the murder of Rivero, Pérez and Arnal.
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