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Montevideo, September 7th 2024 - 23:41 UTC

Tag: Operation Veneratio

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 10:02 UTC

    Paraguayan president says he is inspired by Bukele

    Photos of Operation Veneratio showed inmates face down, seated, on their knees, and in underwear, Bukele-style

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña confirmed in an international interview with CNN that he was inspired by his El Salvador colleague Nayib Bukele when launching Operation Veneratio this week, a move to dismantle virtual ownership by the notorious Rotela Clan drug gang of the Tacumbú Penitentiary in Asunción.

  • Tuesday, December 19th 2023 - 09:51 UTC

    Operation Veneratio leaves 12 dead at Asunción jailhouse

    The Tacumbú prison had become a center from where criminal groups operated, Peña explained

    One law enforcement officer and 11 inmates were killed Monday during the so-called Operation Veneratio at Asunción's Tacumbú Prison through which the administration of President Santiago Peña put an end to unthinkable privileges granted to incarcerated drug lord Armando Javier Rotela and his gang, which virtually ran the place.