{"id":17020,"date":"2020-05-02T17:22:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T21:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=17020"},"modified":"2020-05-02T17:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T21:24:47","slug":"venezuela-prison-riot-leaves-more-than-40-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2020\/05\/02\/venezuela-prison-riot-leaves-more-than-40-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela prison riot leaves more than 40 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 40 people were reportedly killed after rioting broke out at a prison in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Inmates at Los Llanos jail, near western Guanare city, were angry at a lack of food and water, according to the Venezuelan Prison Observatory.<\/p>\n

The organisation called for an investigation, casting doubt on the official version that the prisoners had attempted a jail-break.<\/p>\n

Prison staff including the governor were wounded in the incident.<\/p>\n

The Prisons Minister Iris Varela told a Venezuelan newspaper that there had been an incident at the jail but did not give a death toll. The incident was described as an escape attempt in that report.<\/p>\n

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Riots in the unsanitary and overcrowded prisons of Latin America have been increasing as governments introduce containment measures to help slow the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n

Quarantine measures may mean that inmates cannot receive food brought by relatives, on which they may depend.<\/p>\n

The observatory, a prison watchdog, said 46 inmates had died and the local hospital’s emergency department was overwhelmed with the number of wounded.<\/p>\n

Opposition National Assembly member Maria Beatriz Martinez,\u00a0tweeting from outside the prison (in Spanish)<\/a>, described the incident as a “massacre” and said relatives understood their loved ones would be buried in mass graves. They were demanding the bodies be returned to them, they said.<\/p>\n

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As well as the coronavirus pandemic, Venezuela is engulfed in a political crisis with two rival politicians claiming to be the country’s legitimate leader.<\/p>\n

Under President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro the economy has collapsed and shortages of basic commodities have become widespread. Millions of people have fled to neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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