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The electoral authority and Venezuela's top court say Maduro won, but have not published detailed tallies. Gonzalez, 75, said his son-in-law was kidnapped on Tuesday while taking his children to ...
The increase comes as a renewed push to apprehend Maduro, 62, who has been under indictment in the U.S. since 2020 for his alleged involvement in drug trafficking and narco-terrorism.
(The Center Square) – Members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), continue to expand criminal operations in western states, including in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
Crime in Venezuela is widespread, with violent crimes such as murder and kidnapping increasing for several years. In 2014, the United Nations attributed crime to the poor political and economic environment in the country—which, at the time, had the second highest murder rate in the world.
Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), referred to the massacre as "another unacceptable form of torture by the dictatorship [of Venezuela]". [11] Amnesty International directly blamed Nicolás Maduro for the deaths, and for trying to "justify the violence used, stating that it was an attempted escape by ...
The Scientific, Penal and Criminalistic Investigation Service Corps (Spanish: Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas, CICPC) is Venezuela's largest national police agency, responsible for criminal investigations and forensic services. It replaced the Cuerpo Técnico de Policía Judicial (PTJ) in 2001. [1]
Law enforcement in Venezuela is highly fragmented, being split across multiple police agencies of various types. The National Guard, with around 33,000 officers, is attached to the Ministry of Defence. The Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas, with around 8,000 officers, is the primary criminal investigation agency.
El Helicoide is a building in Caracas, Venezuela owned by the Venezuelan government and used as a facility and prison for both regular and political prisoners of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN). [1]