Diosdado Cabello: this will be the year in which we will eliminate all criminal groups in Venezuela

Statement by Diosdado Cabello, Minister of Interior and Justice of Venezuela. teleSUR

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00:00Officers, intelligence corps, so we have been monitoring constantly of all criminal groups,

00:15of all leaders of criminal groups that have decided some time ago to generate terror,

00:26acts of terrorism against our people, murderings, kidnappings, drug trafficking.

00:33When we refer to drug trafficking, we necessarily have to associate this with Uribe and Iván Duque.

00:43Today, in an operation at 7.30 a.m. at the Petares-Santa Lucía highway,

00:50at the Lagunitas and Filas de Sousa highway, in an armed confrontation against a commission of

00:59intelligence of our police corps, and so we have killed the Alexis Acevedo has been killed in

01:13action, and so there are countless of extortions and assassinations of this gentleman who has

01:25executed terror against these municipalities and the governors of all and all the population of

01:34Caracas. It is important to recall his attachment to the far right wing. Let's recall how Guaribas

01:43started in 2017, where for us to remember, so he generated acts of violence in Petares,

01:52in Petares persecutions, shootings, wounded, and that was the order for the

01:59groups generating violence for the groups that so much damage has caused to the Venezuelan people.

02:07After a long career of criminality, of terror, this citizen, Willitzes Acevedo Monasterio,

02:15has decided to confront the specialized police corps, and so he has been shut down. It is a

02:27legal intervention, and so we have provided this communiqué to Venezuela about this fact.

02:37For the tranquility and peace of this town, of all Caracas,

02:45so those who decide to confront the security corps of the state are going to face a resounding

02:54response. The leaders of the criminal groups have to confront us, and so this will be the year to

03:06eliminate all criminal groups in Venezuela, all these partners, colleagues, military, police

03:14officers, officials of the Bolivarian armed forces, of the civilian, all united in a single block

03:23alongside our people to combat criminality, and so some may wonder how we got to this criminal group,

03:34but telephones just spoke, and we have seized two telephones, two mobiles to these people,

03:43and through a mobile that was collected a few days ago, we found addresses and attachments of the

03:53extreme groups with the organized crime, and all this criminality is organized by

04:03Alvaro Uribe and Ivan Duque, two paramilitary mercenaries that have been declaring war

04:11against Venezuela. They couldn't manage their country, and they want to declare the war against

04:18Venezuela. We are all united, led by our president, Nicolás Maduro, and our police corps in form of

04:29this event in which Acevedo has been fallen. Thank you very much for your attention, and from here,

04:38we provide you this news, a plenary exercise for peace. If you are a criminal, we will search

04:51for you, we will confront you, and we will eliminate all criminal groups in Venezuela. Good morning.