Minister: All inmates slain at Venezuelan jail are identified
Minister of Penitentiary Affairs Iris Valera insisted that mass media roiled prisoners before they clashed with guards
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Varela pointed out that 106 firearms and 8,562 rounds of ammunitions were seized following the riot.
In a press conference, she stated that 58 people were slain and that all the bodies have been identified.
The senior official added that "violent groups" of inmates were disturbed by mass media on the same day the riot broke out. She claimed that mass media broadcast footages of tanks and said that authorities planned a military takeover of the prison facilities.
Translated by Jhean Cabrera
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Chapo's drug traffic network
Luis Jiménez Alfaro seems to have hidden under the rocks. The last time he was seen was on April 2006 walking calmly around Simón Bolívar International Airport of Maiquetía, located nearby Caracas. At that time, more than five tons of cocaine arrived in Mexico in an airplane which took off from Venezuela, and his name featured as a missing piece of the puzzle of one of the most massive drug shipments that has been witnessed in the Western Hemisphere.
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