Venezuelan Minister for the Interior Diosdado Cabello on his program Con El Mazo Dando, April 2, 2025. Photo: Con El Mazo Dando.
Venezuelan authorities will conduct an investigation into a social media campaign about alleged robberies which, according to Minister for the Interior Diosdado Cabello, is aimed at “blaming Venezuelan repatriates” who are returning to Venezuela from the US.
“I have ordered a thorough investigation,” said Cabello on Wednesday, April 2, during his television program Con El Mazo Dando. “We have seen on social media some women who say: ‘I was just robbed and the same thing happened to my cousin in such and such a place.’ Others say, ‘I was standing on a corner and I was robbed.’ But when we check with the CICPC [Criminal, Scientific and Forensic Investigation Corps], there is no complaint. So we are looking for those people so that they file a complaint.”
He added that “everywhere” on the streets there are cameras that record what is happening to ensure the safety of the citizens, and that can be key for the resolution of these alleged robberies.
The minister opined that this campaign is being waged by far-right groups to “generate fear in the population” and “to make people believe that those who are returning from outside are committing crimes.”
“I do not know if anyone is going to commit a crime, but those who commit crimes will be caught, and we will put handcuffs on them with the same love and affection, and they will go to court,” Cabello remarked.
On March 28, Cabello decried that an attempt is being made to create a narrative about an alleged increase in crimes in order to blame Venezuelan migrants who are returning to the country.
During the broadcast of the podcast Sin Truco Ni Maña, which Cabello hosts with National Assembly Deputy Tania Díaz, he explained that the groups promoting this narrative declare that they do not want the returnees in their neighborhoods.
“They want to create a narrative, without evidence of any kind, that robberies increased in their neighborhood,” Cabello said on the podcast. “Who was robbed? Nobody, but ‘robberies increased’ … They are trying to blame things that are not happening on those who are returning, and they even say that they do not want the returnees in their neighborhoods.”
(Últimas Noticias) by Aliarly Carrillo
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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