Paramilitarism in the border state with Colombia is reduced, says Venezuelan governor

In the Venezuelan state of Táchira, on the border with Colombia, “paramilitarism was reduced” Thanks to multiple security operations carried out in the entity, the governor of that region of VenezuelaChavista Freddy Bernal.

“We did multidisciplinary work in perfect civic-military-police unity and, with a series of multiple operations for more than a year and a half, the paramilitaries operating on the Venezuelan side were reduced”assured the regional president in an interview offered to the private media Globovisión.

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He explained that 113 “highly dangerous criminals” caught in tachira are being prosecuted in Caracasand that another 100 “They were killed (killed) in various confrontations”.

The Governor did not specify the crimes committed by these criminals, or if they were people associated with paramilitaries.

“Today in Táchira there is no extortion, there is no kidnapping, there is no payment for vaccines”asserted Bernal and pointed out that, according to figures from the Ministry of Interior and Justicethe border region is the “fourth safest state of Venezuela”.

He recalled that they maintain in the border area with Colombia the security operation “Frontera de Paz”, with more than 1,300 police officers deployed, to keep out of Venezuelan territory the actions of “criminal structures” that, he asserted, operate in the Colombian department of Norte de Santander.

The activation of this operation took place last May, days after eight people were injured by an attack with a grenade thrown at a business in the Venezuelan municipality of Pedro María Ureña by “criminal gangs” of the Andean country who extort merchants, according to what Bernal denounced at the time.

The governor has reiterated that the Venezuelan authorities will defend against criminal gangs, and “with the force of the Constitution”the border area they share with Colombia.

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Source: Elcomercio

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