Presidential candidate Daniel Ceballos promised this Sunday to get rid of 167 police checkpoints on Venezuela’s roads, if he wins the July 28 elections, as he believes that these locations function extortion facilities towards residents.
In his opinion, the top of state, Nicolás Maduro, maintains all these checkpoints – operated by police forces and the Bolivarian Nationwide Guard (GNB, Militarized Police) – out of “worry” of those that don’t sympathize with him. The president will search a second re-election in July.
“I’m not afraid of the gochos (residents of the Andean states), so I’ll get rid of these 167 factors of rattle (extortion),” mentioned the previous mayor, quoted in a press launch.
These checkpoints, he assured, are positioned on the highway between Caracas and the Andes area, the place the states of Táchira, Mérida and Trujillo are positioned, all within the west of the nation.
Likewise, he highlighted the necessity to “free the border crossings with Colombia from checkpoints and customs,” with which Venezuela shares a 2,219-kilometer border.
“Now we have to free the border in order that individuals who produce potatoes, tomatoes or cocoa can commerce freely,” added the candidate, a critic of the primary anti-Chavista coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD).
Maduro has known as to denounce the extortion and abuses dedicated at these floor surveillance factors, which have elevated within the final decade below his authorities. EFE
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