{"id":9100,"date":"2023-09-24T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/venezuela-regains-control-of-prison-where-inmates-built-swimming-pool-restaurants\/"},"modified":"2023-09-24T14:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T14:06:53","slug":"venezuela-regains-control-of-prison-where-inmates-built-swimming-pool-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/venezuela-regains-control-of-prison-where-inmates-built-swimming-pool-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela regains control of prison where inmates built swimming pool, restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Venezuelan government invited journalists to tour the Tocoron Penitentiary Center in Aragua state on Saturday \u2013 days after security forces reclaimed control of a prison that has spent many years under the control of gangs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Tocoron prison, one of the largest in the country, had previously been under the direct control of inmates, many of them members of the powerful transnational criminal gang \u2018Tren de Aragua,\u2019 (Train of Aragua), named after the state in which Tocoron is located, according to the Venezuelan Information Ministry.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      On Wednesday, Venezuelan security forces including the Army and National Guard conducted a special operation with more than 11,000 personnel to regain control of the prison grounds.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Venezuela\u2019s Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos said the operation was \u201ca complete success.\u201d During the media tour on Saturday, Ceballos announced 80 high-ranking members of the Tren de Aragua gang had been detained by security forces following the takeover of the prison.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Ceballos denied media reports that the government negotiated with gang leaders before the operation.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Thousands of inmates were transferred to other prisons after the operation, according to the Venezuelan Information Ministry. However, relatives of inmates dispute these claims, saying they haven\u2019t spoken to their relatives since the morning of the operation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      While it is not uncommon for gangs to run prisons in Venezuela, the Tocoron Penitentiary was notorious inside the country, and in recent years had become a symbol of the Venezuelan government\u2019s inability to regain control.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Tren de Aragua is Venezuela\u2019s most powerful criminal group. In recent years it has expanded its operations to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina, according to the US State Department.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Venezuelan government invited journalists to tour the Tocoron Penitentiary Center in Aragua state on Saturday \u2013 days after security forces reclaimed control of a prison that has spent many years under the control of gangs. The Tocoron prison, one of the largest in the country, had previously been under the direct control of inmates, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}