Carlos Ocariz said that the Sucre municipality, when it was mayor, the homicide rate was reduced by less than half
The former mayor of the Sucre municipality of the state Miranda Carlos Ocariz rejected this Friday, January 24, the link between the Minister of Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, between the first justice politician and aka “the Wilexis”; who died in a police confrontation on Wednesday 22.
Through their social networksOcariz described the hair accusations as “inventions” and recalled that while he was in charge of the Mayor’s Office of Sucre, the homicide rate “less than half” was reduced, as he stressed that the fight against organized crime was made .
Therefore, he denied that there are links with some armed band «in Petare or elsewhere; neither before being mayor, nor during, nor later ».
Inventions continue … During the two periods that I was mayor of Sucre, (2008-2017), we bring homicides to less than half and fight organized crime, all this according to figures of the same official bodies.
In this sense, I want to deny … https://t.co/ru4f5rzole
– Carlos Ocariz (@Carlosocariz) January 24, 2025
The Minister of Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, said earlier that the former mayor of the municipality of Sucre Carlos Ocariz and the former governor of Miranda Henrique Capriles have links with alias “El Wilexis”, who died in police confrontation on Wednesday 22; when the first of the two days of military exercises in the country was carried out.
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Cabello, who together with Deputy Tania Díaz leads a radio space, urged Ocariz and Capriles to “den” his alleged links with the deceased criminal.
«Let Ocariz come to deny that he had links with Wilexis. Capriles, what do you know about Wilexis? Then they throw the ‘dead’ to the government (…) how the guarimbas began in 2027, with a shot in Petare. Who started? Wilexis, in order of whom? Of Capriles and Ocariz, ”he said.
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