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Police forces killed “El Conejo” on Thursday, public enemy number one of Venezuela, for whose head Chavismo had offered a reward of one million dollars. The well-known criminal Carlos Gómez Rodríguez, leader of a criminal gang that was dedicated to hitmen, kidnappings, extortion, robberies and piracy on the road, fell just days after one of his accomplices, the Chavista mayor Pedro Hernández, was arrested during an operation anti-corruption within Chavismo.
“Rabbit”“the koki”(killed by the police in 2022) and the Aragua Traina mafia group allied with gomez that spread throughout the region and that competes with the Colombian guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN) as the main organized crime gang in South America, were part of the new map of Venezuelan crime during the mandate of Nicolas Maduro. All of them emerged from the bowels of Chavismo, protected by an arsenal of weapons of war and with social networks as their main means of propaganda.
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The Admiral remigio ceballosMinister of the Interior, informed the country that They also arrested 36 gang criminals and confiscated 16 firearms with chargers, explosives, nine cars, 14 motorcycles, 41 portable radios, cell phones, and a telescope. “We will not allow the presence in our territory of armed terrorists,” stressed the minister, while they spread on social networks, as a way of vendettathe images of the cadaverous and bloody face of the criminal.
In the hands of the police lieutenants and members of the dismantled gang now remain, such as “Cabeza de Ajo”, “Orejón”, “Erizo”, “Pantera” and “El Menor”.
As if it were a reduced version of Pablo Escobar, “El Conejo” built a “sophisticated system of social control”as discovered by the organization InSight Crime. His band started a foundation, called Pies Descalzos.with which he helped popular populations with food and medicine, but which he also used to attract young people through sports activities.
“Before being killed by the state security forces, The Rabbit circumvented the so-called Territorial Defensive System, control points, tolls and detachments of the Bolivarian National Guard in more than 600 kilometers between the center of the country and the Sucre state, where he was hiding.”, highlighted Rocío San Miguel, president of Citizen Control for Security and the Armed Forces. During his years of criminal activity, security experts and opposition leaders denounced a certain collusion between authorities and these criminal gangs.
Maduro himself acknowledged last Monday the ties of Hernández, Chavista mayor of Las Tejerías arrested during the anti-corruption purge that began last week, with the criminal killed. “It is fully proven in research his direct ties to the criminal gang of the murderer El Conejotheir multiple ties, their businesses, it’s an amazing thing”, the president said in a television broadcast.
On the other hand, Chavismo, through Admiral Ceballos, preferred to recover this Friday the old discourse of the opposition’s “ties” with the mafia gangs, for which they activated their “communication guerilla” on social networks.
“The activity of these criminal groups is promoted from abroad with the shipment of arms to generate anxiety in the country and try to destabilize peace and tranquility”, said the Minister of the Interior.
Mayor Hernández is on the list of Chavista leaders trapped in corruption networks, such as Joselit Ramírez, superintendent of cryptocurrencies; the deputy and former minister Hugbel Roa; several soldiers from Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and judges from Caracas. The open war within Chavismo has forced the fall of the almighty Tareck El-Aissami, until a few days ago Minister of Petroleum. Ramírez was also the head of his office and Roa, one of his closest men.
Source: Elcomercio
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