According to El Nacional, Ledezma also highlighted that criminal gangs are in control of many activities that should be the power of the government.
“That there are pranes (criminal leaders, as they call it in Venezuela and other countries) that control the prisons, guerrilla nuclei that administer mining territories in the Bolívar state, terrorists who have military camps, clandestine runways for drug trafficking planes to operate; parapolice groups that organize hired killers, kidnappings, robberies, etc., and a narco-state that offers them total impunity, ”he explained.
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What do the neighborhood residents say?
Various local media indicate that Wilexis is the alias of Wuileisys Alexander Acevedo Monasteries, one of the most wanted men in Caracas. He is also believed to be no more than 30 years old. José Félix Riba’s neighbors have mixed opinions about him.
“Since Wilexis came to the neighborhood we have been subdued. We adapt to your rules as curfews. Merchants have to pay for a vaccine so they don’t loot the business. He decides when there are classes, if public transport works and you have to ask him for permission to hold a party at your house, “said Carlos Hernández, one of Petare’s neighbors, according to an ABC report.
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For her part, Maria thinks that Wilexis watches over the safety of the neighbors. He even says that he has removed criminals who want to act against them from the area. “He delivers food, toys, school supplies to poor children,” he says after commenting that they have organized a mass on his behalf.
There are also those who are afraid of the Wilexis gangs, the worm and the police, that is, they do not feel the least bit of tranquility in the José Félix Riba neighborhood.
“We not only have to worry about the neighborhood gangs, because now the police officers who they scare us more than criminals. They arrive without a search warrant, knock down the doors, rob us and murder us with impunity, ”says an anonymous neighbor to ABC.
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