Until the afternoon of this Tuesday, January 6, no authority had given an official balance on the number of injured or dead, both civilians and military, due to the US bombings in various points of Caracas, La Guaira and Miranda.
The governor of La Guaira, Alejandro Terán, and the Minister of Education, Héctor Rodríguez, assured that more than 80 deaths were recorded due to the US attacks during the early hours of Saturday, January 3, when the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, took place.
Until the afternoon of this Tuesday, January 6, no authority had given an official balance on the number of injured or dead, both civilians and soldiers, due to the US bombings in various points of Caracas, La Guaira and Miranda.
The Army published the obituaries of 23 soldiers, all low-rankingwho died “in defense of peace, sovereignty, freedom and independence.” The Militia also published an obituary for the death of José Salvador Rodríguez Ramírez, stationed at the “General Cipriano Castro” barracks.
«More than 150 planes and helicopters crossed the country. “More than 80 people have died,” said Governor Terán during an activity with residents of the Rómulo Gallegos urbanization, in Catia La Mar, where Rosa Helena González lived, one of those who died as a result of the impacts on one of the buildings.
Héctor Rodríguez, social and territorial sector vice president, assured for his part that “Rosa Elena was Venezuelan and an invasion killed her. “How they murdered more than 80 Venezuelans.”
«There is structural damage, there are deaths, and there is a leader and his wife kidnapped. We must act with a cold and calm mind, because from overflowing feelings we will not be able to solve the problems. We have to take a deep breath,” said the minister, who accompanied the activity.
The reconstruction work of the building affected by a missile in La Guaira has already begun, although it was not reported when the repairs would be ready and the neighbors could return to their homes.
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32 Cuban officers who provided support in “institutional protection and defense tasks” also died on January 3, as confirmed by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry in a statement. For its part, the journalistic alliance La Hora de Venezuela has been able to confirm the names of another 19 Venezuelan soldiers killed in this action.
Among the civilian deaths is also that of Yohanna Rodríguez Sierra, 45 years old and Colombian nationality. The woman worked in a home located less than a kilometer from where the transmission antennas that serve the military sector, television stations and telecommunications companies operate in the El Volcán sector, Miranda state.
The Public Ministry appointed three prosecutors “to investigate the dozens of innocent civilian and military casualties that occurred in the midst of this horrible war crime, this unusual aggression against the Venezuelan homeland,” said Attorney General Tarek William Saab.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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