Diosdado Cabello, Minister of Interior, Justice, and Peace of Venezuela, reports breakthroughs in the country’s fight against drug trafficking and organized crime in the state of Zulia. teleSUR
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00:00OK, here, this is a complete report so far of this operation.
00:13This is the chief of the operation, the gun leader.
00:26We have many people already identified.
00:29Many have been arrested.
00:30We were still pending some arrests.
00:34All of the ones that you see a face of have been arrested.
00:37The others are pending.
00:42We have, they were all operating armed gangs.
00:54We have two Colombians involved in this gang.
00:59They're all under the leadership of Jose Enrique Rincón, who answers to Maria Corina Machado.
01:13They had a great operation of destabilization, corruption, drug trafficking.
01:30This man, Arcos Urdaneta, these men have been arrested.
01:48Those who are part of this conspiracy are defending publicly these men who are involved
01:58clearly in this drug trafficking operation, destabilizing operation.
02:07This is the mayor of Miranda, the Miranda municipality.
02:16This is the mayor of Padilla, where the lake meets the Caribbean Sea.
02:27I want to show you on the map.
02:31This is the Miranda municipality.
02:36These are the ports of Altagracia.
02:43They are mayors who were chosen by popular vote of the revolution, and they betrayed
02:51the revolution.
02:53They got involved in corruption, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and they should meet the
03:00consequences of their actions.
03:04Loaiza is also a mayor who's also been arrested.
03:29Danilo Esteban also captured.
03:34We have six mayors arrested so far.
03:44That criminal structure has financed election campaigns.
03:54Of course, they need to make sure that they will be able to continue carrying out their
04:00drug trafficking through their municipalities.
04:03We have identified all the people involved, all the companies, and we will continue on
04:10this operation.
04:13The president has committed to this.
04:16The revolution has committed to it, and we are doing what we need to do.
04:21Why is that all happening in the state of Zulia?
04:26Because obviously there is no original effective government.
04:36And if you do not believe me, take the road and see if you can find any police station
04:42around Zulia.
04:44And it is very easy in that state to do all this with very little risk.
04:53So we have to be more severe when we approve candidates for political posts.
05:01We need to be extremely severe.