In a protest against police abuses, agents of the Chavista regime were expelled by hundreds of residents in Petare

Hundreds of neighbors protested against police abuse in this neighborhood of Caracas

Hundreds of inhabitants of José Félix Ribas de Petare sector, the most populous emergency neighborhood in Venezuela, forced this Friday a group of agents of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) and the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB, Militarized Police) to withdraw from the area during a protest against police and military abuses.

United to the cry of “We don’t want pimps” (synonymous with “thugs” and a term that also refers to agents who ask people for money in exchange for letting them circulate), the residents of this Caracas neighborhood officers were forced to get into their patrol vehicles and quickly leave the scene. “We don’t want them here!” the residents remarked in their cries of protest.

Reports by journalists on social networks indicate that the agents They extorted the inhabitants of the neighborhood.

Petare is the most populated neighborhood in the country. With 400,000 inhabitants, it is an endless number of block houses with zinc roofs built haphazardly on mountains since the middle of the last century in eastern Caracas, where water, domestic gas and garbage collection services are precarious.

The protest led to the closure of several important avenues in Caracas

According to the NGO Control Ciudadano, during January of this year 106 citizens were “killed” by officials of State security organs in the country. “More than three people were killed daily by state security forces, in alleged clashes,” the organization said in a press release.

The NGO report noted that the Corps of Criminal and Criminalistic Scientific Investigations (CICPC) has the highest number of “killed”, with 22; followed by the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB, Militarized Police) with 21 and the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) with 19. And he denounced that Venezuela “seems to be advancing” in the development of a “citizen security policy, in which he prefers to ‘execute’ suspected criminals, rather than prosecute them and reinsert them into society”.

Control Ciudadano explained that the 106 “killed”, which are “justified” by the Venezuelan State, are mostly cases of “extrajudicial executions”, with which the rights to life, personal integrity and due process are violated.

(With information from EFE)

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