The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, congratulated the military and police operation that achieved control of the “El Dorado” prison in the state of Bolívar and that resulted in the capture of 17 criminal leaders.
“I want to congratulate all the military and police forces that acted yesterday [martes]17 of the so-called pranes were captured and will go to maximum security prisons that we have prepared,” commented the head of state this Wednesday during the podcast broadcast “With Maduro Suddenly.”
“We are going to give regime and regularity to the entire Penitentiary System, it is a great task that is in the 7T Plan, a new true higher level of regimes that will guarantee maximum security, the non-existence of crimes within,” he stated.
Maduro instructed to reproduce the dedication to study and productive work of the people who are in prisons.
El Dorado Intervention
Since Tuesday, three thousand police and military officials carried out the intervention of the El Dorado Penitentiary Complex, Bolívar state, and managed to capture 17 negative leaders (pranes) who maintained a criminal structure to subdue the inmate population and carry out criminal acts in the neighboring towns of the prison, according to investigations.
The criminal structures known as Tren del Llano and Tren de Aragua operated in the complex.
In this regard, the Minister for the Penitentiary Service, Julio García Zerpa, described the operation carried out as “perfect” because it has “the popular, civic-police-military union.”
The three prisons seized will be evicted for subsequent reconditioning, he announced in a video where he displayed some of the seized weapons, including two rifles and a submachine gun, as well as antennas for satellite internet.
