COPEI-Guayana says organized criminals are more organized and equipped than the regional government and/or the security services!

VHeadline Venezuela News reports: Guayana Christian Socialist (COPEI) party leader, Pedro Jose Rivilla says the largely industrial region of Venezuela is in a state of total economic and political collapse with an alarming growth in organized crime kidnappings and killers-for-hire hired killers. He says crime levels are terrorizing the population and that there is no response from either local or regional government. In the last week alone, there were three abductions and there has been nothing heard of what (if any) the police are taking or indeed the whereabouts of the victims.

In less than 24 hours there have been two assassinations ... on Sunday a well-loved doctor, Antonio Lapadula and his wife were killed, their bodies riddled with bullets as they returned home from Puerto Ordaz. A possible motive was robbery. "It is a well-known fact that there are homicides all over the regional capital, Ciudad Guayana, each day, but, most serious of all, these deaths go unpunished and there appears to be no intention on the part of government to deal strongly with these attacks."

Rivilla says "there is great nervousness in the market and foreign businessmen, especially Arab and Asian executives, are making arrangements to return home to their respective countries while they can. It is creating a situation of serious dis-investment in the Guayana region that is affecting investments in the private companies that have been developing slowly, but with good prospects for the future.

While a special (Bolivar State) Anti-Kidnapping Command was activated last Friday with much fanfare by State Governor Francisco Rangel Gomez. Rivilla emphasizes that he does not see any serious move towards effectively dealing with the soaring criminality that affects the region ... "it seems that organized crime is more organized that the government in all respects," he adds.

"Quite frankly the criminal underworld is defying the regional government, clearly demonstrating that it is they (organized crime) that is more organized and equipped than the government and/or the security forces." COPEI, he says, has responsibly challenged the government to step up to the plate and deal with the situation "or else Guayana will suffer a social explosion with untold consequences for the Venezuela as a whole."

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