Nicolás Maduro's regime has displaced the Miranda police chief for clashing with armed groups

The lieutenant Néstor Padilla, Director of Miranda Police Operations (Polimiranda), he was fired after the performance of regional policemen in the events that took place at the Ministry of Transport in Chacao last Tuesday.

A source from the security organ pointed out The pit Padilla was removed from office by allowing officials who had initiated administrative proceedings, they fired on armed groups They attacked protesters on Elice Street.

The same media remember that the images where Miranda's police officers were confronted with armed criminals, who fired on protesters from the transport portfolio's headquarters, they became viral and were applauded by the leaders of the opposition.

The decision to dismiss Padilla from office, which has been exercising her since Polimiranda's intervention in 2017, while the governorship was still under the administration of Henrique Capriles, was taken by the regional executive responsible for Héctor Rodríguez.

The history of collectives and other paramilitary forces goes back past of the armed struggle that took place in Venezuelaexplained the coordinator of the Venezuelan Education Program – Action for Human Rights (Provea), Rafael Uzcátegui, in an interview with Infobae.

In the 1980s and 1990s, these groups were pacified and they continued the legal struggle and dissent in public universities, but with the arrival of Hugo Chávez in power in 1999, they became important again.

The cultural coordinator Simón Bolívar is "the great origin"collectives in their current version, which has gradually approached the PSUV ruling party to become the bodyguards of their officials and then in the violent defenders of the so-called Bolivarian revolution.

In 2013 they started their work of "public security"and in 2014, they had their baptism of fire in the role in which they grabbed their most infamous reputation: the brutal repression of opposition demonstrations against Nicolás Maduro.

Although they are armed, their tactics vary according to the situation and many times they simply use sticks or even use the mbadive presence of their motorcycles, one of the strongest symbols of the collective and motorized, to generate fear.

The regime quickly warned that the use of collectives was an ideal deterrent, as their brutality and fanaticism added to their concerns. illegalitywhich provoked in its victims the terror to be denounced for fear of reprisals.