President Nicolàs Maduro appointed new Minister of Penitentiary Affairs

On July 11, Nicolás Maduro appointed Julio García Zerpa as Minister of Penitentiary Service. Who’s Julio García Zerpa? And why does he come to occupy this place in the course of a starvation strike in additional than 16 prisons within the nation? At NTA we let you know.

Julio García Zerpa is a deputy to the Nationwide Meeting (AN) for the United Socialist Celebration of Venezuela (PSUV).

He additionally serves as vice chairman of the Inside Coverage Fee, chaired by Diosdado Cabello.

On the AN’s official portal they spotlight that he’s a member of a number of parliamentary friendship teams with different international locations, together with Costa Rica, Colombia, Italy and Ecuador. García Zerpa is a lawyer.

Throughout the previous few weeks, by means of his official account on X, he posted the actions of the Future Motion political get together, led by the governor of Miranda, Héctor Rodríguez.

Allow us to keep in mind that this political group offered its assist for the re-election of Nicolás Maduro.

Final April he was a part of a congress on the Supreme Courtroom of Justice (TSJ), the place the reform of the Venezuelan Civil Process Code was mentioned.

In a video he urged the magistrates to consider {that a} renewed authorized framework is required, in response to him, for the investments that may attain the nation.

García Zerpa praised the work of the Particular Fee of the Judicial Revolution in an interview. This was created by the Maduro authorities to finish the procedural delay.

García Zerpa affirmed that there isn’t any overcrowding in Venezuelan prisons

In January, García Zerpa stated in an interview: “We wouldn’t have overcrowding within the preventive facilities. We wouldn’t have overcrowding in prisons.”

In this system Immediatelyfrom the Unión Radio circuit, added that the jail inhabitants within the nationwide territory had been decreased by 40%.

However overcrowding in Venezuela isn’t one thing new nor did it start with the Complicated Humanitarian Emergency. In 2009, a report from the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory (OVP) detailed that jail services had been “deteriorated” and “inadequate.”