the gang of “El Koki”, the scourge which holds the Venezuelan capital hostage

The gunshots are heard as in a war scene. Cars leaking the wrong way. People sleeping on the floor are afraid of stray bullets. Attacks in tunnels … in recent hours, clashes between the Venezuelan police and a band of outlaws entrenched at the top of a hill overlooking Caracas, have already left 8 dead and 13 injured. They are the men of “El Koki”, a criminal who holds the capital hostage.

Nicolás Maduro’s Chavist regime offers $ 1.5 million for the capture of criminal gang leaders and claims it liquidated Koki but did not show his body.

The people of Caracas are terrified. In populous neighborhoods in the west of the city, residents of Cota 905 cannot sleep or leave their homes due to gunfire and fear of stray bullets that criminal gangs, allies of the Chavista regime, have been holding back for three years. days. residents and police and military authorities.

The government cut off electricity Thursday in the “red” zone for twelve hours, but the armed clash continued on Friday.

“At this time, the security agencies with more than 800 officials took the Cota 905 and will begin the operation of house-to-house search in search of gang leaders,” journalist Román Camacho reported on Friday.

In the operation, security forces killed Koki but did not show his body. They never do it every time they claim to have killed him. And “El Koki” manages to come back.

This already happened in May, when the regime announced that the gang leader had fallen, only to report the following week to Cota 905 to start over.

Gunpowder smell

“The smell of gunpowder reaches my window,” complained a neighbor on social media while others lamented having to sleep on the floor to protect against fire.

Nicolás Maduro posted on his twitter account the announcement of the Minister of the Interior, Carmen Meléndez, offering a reward of 1.5 million dollars for capturing the gang leaders, including 500,000 dollars for the “Koki” and others by alias “Vampi” and the “Garbis”.

Besieged caracas

Since Tuesday, the “Koki” or “Coqui”, as the main leader of the criminal gang of the populous Cota 905 neighborhood is nicknamed, controls the west of Caracas and its main accesses to the airport international or inside the country without the military and police forces being able to do anything to stop their criminal advance.

As the military high command celebrated the promotions announced by Nicolás Maduro on Thursday, the gang clashes left people dead and injured, according to reports by journalists Javir Ignacio Mayorca, Roman Camacho and Delmiro de Barrio.

The three days of shootings from the entrenched bunker the gang set up atop Cota 905, many houses and vehicles from La Vega, the cemetery and El Paraíso they are already registering broken glass and walls riddled with bullets, dead and injured, as seen on social media.

Neighbors express that they live moments of “terror” who were forced to lie on the ground to protect themselves from stray bullets, unable to sleep soundly or leave their homes or work or do emergencies.

“El Koki and his gang continue to harass Caracas. At present, the residents of the western part of the city have no guarantee of their right to life or their personal integrity. This is happening during the dictatorship. carries out military promotions, “wrote the deputy. Delsa Solorzano for Twitter

Criminals too they blocked the tunnels de La Planicie, firing at vehicles going to the coast of Caracas or to the international airport of Maiquetía, causing Flight delays.

They also stop the few vehicles traveling on the highways to steal their belongings.

Carabobeño newspaper reported that a man lost his life due to several gunshot wounds at the entrance to El Toll de Cota 905 sector. Unofficially, he is said to be an outsider.

A woman fell on Nueva Granada avenue because of A stray bullet; Giovanni Rafael Bracamonte, who was traveling on the highway in his truck, was shot dead by gang members as he reached the tunnels of El Paraíso; and a fourth death, another man, entered Pérez Carreño hospital without vital signs.

This last he got around in a taxi and, as he passed through the aforementioned tunnels, he received an impact when members of the Cota 905 gang fired at the vehicles from their trenches on the hill.

In addition, a man identified as Junior Barreto, 41, was injured after being shot in the hand when several gang members pulled him out of his vehicle in the El Cementerio tunnel. He was transferred to the Pérez Carreño hospital, where he is stable.

Who is the “Koki”

Carlos Luis Revete, alias “El Koki”, is one of the most wanted criminals in Venezuela, and leader of the mega-gang that controls the Cota 905 sector, southwest of Caracas.

Despite having charges against him since 2013For crimes such as theft, homicide, and drug trafficking, Revete enjoys great impunity and struts around with his many gold chains hanging from his chest, a symbol of the power of criminal bosses.

The non-aggression pact that Koki concluded with the Chavist authorities shows the almost total abdication of the state in slums controlled by mega gangs, according to the site “Insight Crimen”.

Alliance of Chavismo with criminal armed groups started with the late Hugo Chávez that he first made a pact with the “Bolivarian circles” then with the paramilitary “collectives” to protect the revolution because of the mistrust he had towards officers of the Bolivarian Armed Forces.

José Vicente Rangel Avalos, mayor of the municipality of Sucre (Petare district) and son of the recently deceased former Minister of Foreign Affairs José Vicente Rangel, agree with the Koki and other criminals in 2015 and gave them poor neighborhoods or “peace zones” for their control in exchange for disarming gangs.

This pact of pacification resulted “A blow in the ass” and a boomerang as violence and crime skyrocketed in areas controlled by criminals.

The gangs got stronger by showing off sophisticated weapons advanced war machines and ammunition, used by the army, trafican drugs, terrorize the neighbors and challenge the Chavist authorities who seem indifferent to the violence and anarchy that surrounds the city.

Without showing any evidence, Minister Meléndez accuses “the right” of arming the gangs. However, opposition leader Juan Guaidó shows the evidence and blames the Maduro regime for delivering territory and weapons to criminal gangs.

“Now he can’t handle them anymore and he’s lost control of Caracas.”

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