Maduro asks to maintain the “combat” against the “La Sayona train”

Nicolás Maduro asked this Sunday to maintain a “frontal combat” against criminal gangs that operate in national territory and against the «La Sayona train»in reference to the opposition leader Maria Corina Machadofrom prevention, education and sports, because – he said – there is still a long way to go for the country to be in “harmony.”

“How much progress we have made in securing the borders, the cities, the fields, citizen peace, coexistence, there is still a long way to go, there is still a long way to go to be a peaceful country of harmony, to reach zero tolerance for the criminal gangs that plague the people,” he said. the president in a televised event.

Maduro asked as the main point for this “combat” prevention, education, culture, sports, to be able to “capture young people and children for good values.”

“Fight and annul the degrading culture that worships (…) violence, weapons, drugs, robbery, the easy wealth that abounds out there,” he added.

Insists on winning the “battle” against the “La Sayona train”

He venezuelan president He insisted on winning “this battle” against “the Aragua Train, the Llano Train, the La Sayona train, against all the trains of delinquents, mercenaries, criminals, drug traffickers.”

On November 7, the director of the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigation Corps (Cicpc), Douglas Rico, assured that Venezuela accumulates a rate of 3.49 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants during 2024, while adding that the country has recorded a sustained decrease in this crime since 2022.

Through the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), Rico recalled that the Caribbean nation had in 2016 “the highest peak” in terms of homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, without providing figures, but added that thanks to “the security agencies citizen and the National Armed Force” this crime has been reduced.

The director of the CICPC stated that “all crimes have gone down” in Venezuela, with the exception of IT, which – he noted – after the covid-19 pandemic, in 2020, was “in crescendo.”