"The only way to lower homicides, robberies and kidnappings is national disarmament. If we know that there are 15 million guns in the street, why not disarm these people?" asked the human rights activist, Rafael Narváez. "If that's true, the underworld has several armies and in this situation the national government looks cowardly in the face of rising insecurity. The mob won the battle against the state, the mob is the one who confers and gives the license to kill," he said, alarmed at the increasing rates of insecurity and killings in the country. He recalled that at Miraflores "there have been 10 Ministers of Interior and Justice. All of them promise disarmament but never actually move forward. In the national assembly they are discussing an arms, munitions and explosives law that could be merged with disarmament, but time moves onward and the crime rate increases.
The human rights situation in Venezuela has important complications that are being studied by various agencies specialising in the area. Nevertheless, the commitment of the Catholic Church is to contribute so that citizens can live in freedom, without any kind of repression and with the full ability to express themselves, said Bishop Ovidio Pérez Morales. Related to this, the former chairman of the Plenary Council of Venezuela presented to the Inter-American Bar Association the various statements that the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference has made with respect to human rights. The Inter-American Bar Association is currently Venezuela. Although the bishop did not offer many details on the issues presented, he said the bishops affirmed the earlier pronouncements issued on the subject, noting in particular that this issue is not something "tangential" to the mission of the Church, but rather is "very deeply" embedded in their mission.
In the spirit of Indigenous Resistance Day, the ethnic communities living in Ciudad Guayana expressed their disappointment with the state's neglect. Living in marginalized areas of high risk and under difficult conditions allows them to show the seams in the discourse of inclusion, part of the "socialist transformation" promulgated by the national government. "They remember us on October 12," said Teobaldo Zapata, leader of the Warao ethnic group, located opposite the Monsignor Zabaleta of San Felix passenger terminal. He told of how in previous years he and other community members participated in the campaigns that carried these "socialist" leaders into the offices that they boast of today. "They used us for political ends and then forget about us," said Zapata, referring to an invitation he received on Saturday to attend mayoral events taking place today. Zapata has been stationed for more than 15 years in the area.
A group of former Caracas police officers (Policaracas) reported that 134 members of the police had been illegally expelled and that the institution has been "hijacked by mobsters." Jhony Montoya, spokesman for the group, said that he has spent his whole life as a revolutionary and that those observations have been taken to various agencies. Montoya proposed to the interior minister that he get rid of police chief René Villaverde and intervene in the affairs of the agency. He said the dismissals of officials began three months ago, disguised as restructuring.
There are nearly two million children in the country without access to early education, according to José Luis Farías, representative of Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT), speaking at a press conference yesterday that questioned some of the report submitted by Education Minister Hector Navarro to UNESCO. According to Farías, Navarro went to the UNESCO meeting to lie to the world the same way he does in Venezuela. Among the alleged lies that Navarro has spread, "We have increased attention on early education by 25 percent in the last 10 years. We are already about 80 percent." In this regard, Farías argued that only 41.95 percent of children aged five or younger are involved with early childhood education programs, leaving nearly 60 percent of them outside the system. According to Farías, Minister Navarro used the international stage for lying to the world, "as if not it's not enough to lie daily to Venezuelans, he now blatantly uses international space to advertise the educational system of this government that has failed miserably."
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