The bloodshed as a result of criminal actions does not cease in Venezuela. This year kicked off with the same violence registered at the closing of 2014. While this all happens, the current Minister of the Interior and Justice seems to be absent
The bloodshed as a result of criminal actions does not cease in Venezuela. This year kicked off with the same violence registered at the closing of 2014. While this all happens, the current Minister of the Interior and Justice seems to be absent. She doesn’t even bother to mimic her predecessors and announces some new citizen security plan. Total silence, while bullets continue to wreak havoc.
The number of security plans implemented by the Venezuelan “revolution” over the past 15 years, whose results have proven a resounding failure, already exceeds two dozen.
The latest, launched by former interior minister Miguel Rodríguez Torres, was about the country being divided in perimeters dubbed “quadrants” so law enforcement officers could act much more quickly, but all this didn’t do any good.
During the first 20 days of 2015, two massacres have been recorded. One at the Turmero cemetery in Aragua state, when a man with an extensive criminal record was being buried and two rival gangs happened to be in the place and started shooting at each other. This rivalry was settled with seven people dead.
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