The criminal structures known as Tren del Llano and Tren de Aragua had taken over the El Dorado Penitentiary Complex, reported the Minister for the Penitentiary Service, Julio García Zerpa, who proclaimed the dismantling of these gangs with the takeover of those prisons.
“They have been coordinating and have taken this area, these three prisons specifically, as an area for crime,” declared the Minister who is in the state of Bolívar directing Operation Gran Cacique Guaicaipuro.
García Zerpa refers specifically to the three prisons that make up the El Dorado Penitentiary Complex, namely: Eastern Region Penitentiary Center, Precursor Hombre Nuevo Center and Casa Amarilla, which between them house approximately 1,396 prisoners.
These three prisons have been the subject of an intervention since last Tuesday, which involved the capture of 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 intervention of the Penitentiary Complex is carried out by 3 thousand officials, including agents of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) and assigned to the Immediate Response Group of Custodians (Gric).
The Minister said that this entire contingent moved to that region of the Bolívar state “to deal a hard blow to the structured organized crime groups that have been organizing to disturb the peace, tranquility and tranquility of the Venezuelan people.”
The senior official described the operation carried out in El Dorado as “perfect” because it has “the popular, civic-police-military union.”
The three prisons seized will be evacuated for subsequent reconditioning, the Minister announced through a video where he exhibited some of the seized weapons, including two rifles and a submachine gun, as well as antennas for satellite internet.
Once renovated, the El Dorado Penitentiary Complex will reopen “with an extremely strict regime as we have been building it.”
“We have dealt hard blows in the penitentiary centers as announced by the Minister of the Interior, Captain Diosdado Cabello; mafias that had been organizing from the penitentiary centers,” specified García Zerpa, who said that these groups had been recruiting criminals inside and outside the prisons “for a plan that has been revealed in which it was intended to open the prisons so that thousands could leave.” of criminals to the country and deliver heavy weapons to attack the civilian population.” Given this, García Zerpa assured that El Dorado “will no longer be a nest for organized crime.”
