Venezuela is a failed state from years of socialism.
There are reports of interminable long lines in supermarkets, although many shelves are empty; of food riots; and of people killing pets and zoo animals for food.
There are shortages of drinking water and of hospital supplies as basic as bandages, as well as massive power outages.
On Sept. 1, 2016, half a million people swarmed the streets of Venezuela’s capital to demand the recall of President Maduro — to no avail.
The South American country is literally falling apart.
Now comes even more horrifying news: Prisoners are being cannibalized by fellow inmates.
On Sept. 8, 2016, protesting Táchira’s overcrowded conditions, a group of prisoners mutinied, taking 8 visitors and 2 guards hostage, and demanded that some of the 350 prisoners be transferred somewhere else (the Tachira Detention Center’s capacity is 120).
On October 10, Herrera told the local media that he found out about the cannibalism during a regular prison visit three days after the month-long mutiny had ended. Herrera tearfully recounted:
“One of those who were with him [Herrara’s son] when he was murdered saw everything that happened. My son and two others were taken by 40 people, stabbed, hanged to bleed, and then Dorancel butchered them to feed all detainees. The [inmate] with whom I spoke to told me that he was beaten with a hammer [in order] to force him to eat the remains of the two boys.”
Dorancel Vargas, nicknamed “people eater,” has been in prison since 1999 for cannibalism.
Herrera’s son, Juan Carlos Herrera Jr., and one other inmate were unaccounted for when prison guards re-entered the facility after the mutiny was suppressed.
The Táchira mutiny is not unusual. There have been hundreds of mutinies in Venezuelan prisons every year, including 200 riots thus far in 2016, according to the non-governmental organization Una Ventana a la Libertad (A Window to Freedom).
The Minister of Correctional Affairs Iris Varela confirmed the disappearance of Herrera Jr. and the other prisoner, but denied the cannibalism allegations. She said while she “understands the father’s pain,” she regretted that he’s being used to channel lies that can be “easily debunked.”
But a police source who asked to remain anonymous told Fox News Latino the claims of murder and cannibalism are true: “Two [inmates] are missing. They cut them up and fed them to several [of the fellow inmates], they made the bones disappear. Dorancel cut the flesh.”
For his part, Humberto Prado, coordinator of the Venezuelan Prison Observatory (OVP), said the alleged cannibalism would be nothing new in Venezuela’s prisons. Prado told FNL:
“Prisoners have been dismembered before and some inmates have forced other prisoners eat their [own] fingers. That happened in a detention center in El Tigre. But inmates die not only from that [kind of violence], there are many prisoners who die of hepatitis, cirrhosis or famine.”
Prado said the OVP will ask the Attorney’s General Office to start an investigation and will submit the case to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
Grieving dad Herrera said:
“What hurts me most is that I cannot bury my son, I can’t give him a Christian burial. I beg you to give me at least one bone so we can bury him and relieve some of this pain.”
Here’s Herrera’s press conference in Spanish:
Meanwhile, as Venezuela spirals into the abyss, still not a word or even donations to help starving Venezuelans from actor Sean Penn, who was BFF with the country’s late president Hugo Chavez.
Early this October, actors Jamie Foxx and Lukas Haas even paid a touristy visit to Venezuela, complete with photo ops with President Maduro. Maduro had invited the actors to visit the government-funded film and TV studio, Fundación Villa del Cine, and other tourist attractions.
L to r: Unnamed woman, Maduro, Haas, Foxx
See also:
- This is Venezuela: Mob burns a man alive over $5
- Failed States: Puerto Rico in second day of massive blackout; Venezuelans eat garbage for food
- $150 for a dozen eggs: Venezuela in 720% hyperinflation death spiral
- Let them eat cake: Venezuela gov’t celebrates dead Hugo Chavez’s birthday with $100,000 cake while the people starve
- Venezuela is shutting down
- Apocalyptic Venezuela: 5,000 loot supermarket; president declares state-of-emergency
- Socialist Venezuela into the abyss: people are killing pets for food
- Venezuela is imploding from years of socialism
- Socialist Hugo Chavez died with a family fortune worth $2 billion
~Eowyn
How can anyone see this marxist failure and feel safe with a marxist in the white house?
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This is common in resource rich nations. Look up the term “Dutch disease”. However, it is compounded by sanctions and other covert political and economic activities directed against nations non-aligned with U.S. hegemony to utterly ruin those countries (i.e., an opportunistic attempt is made for regime change of non-aligned countries, especially when they are vulnerable).
This is common in resource rich nations. Look up the term “Dutch disease”. However, the effect is compounded in nations non-aligned with U.S. hegemony with sanctions and political sabotage. There is always an opportunistic attempt at regime change whenever a nation non-aligned with the U.S. is vulnerable. Client states of the U.S., such as Saudi Arabia, weather the adverse macro-economic conditions better due to the absence of sanctions and political sabotage.
Well, of course it’s all America’s fault! Always blame America first and last. Venezuela is just a victim, helpless like a child, incapable of governing itself. I should have known better. /sarc
Well, I guess you can’t operate an Empire of military bases, in 180 countries across the world, without having a few people cannibalize each other in prison. /sarc
I wonder just what was on foxx’s and haas’s menu during their stay?
what an abomination! those poor souls! that entire govt should be put on trial.
maybe I’m looking into the names too deeply and they’re just a coincidence (but with satanism, nothing seems to be a coincidence), but, I find it odd that the 3 visitors to venezuela all have double letters in their names:penn, haas, foxx
Those double letters add up to 6–and, there were 3 of them–so, multiplying 6 by 3=18–18 adds up to three 6’s, or 666—I wonder if that’s the basics of why they were actually sent there–to show off to their fellow satanists, and/or to demonstrate who is behind it all–‘shock ‘n awe’–better pronounced “Shekina”, as in “shekina glory”, which is the false ‘light’ claimed to emanate from the false deity they proclaim to be God Almighty. So, those who have hijacked our govt. are just standing by and allowing those people to literally starve to death, with them being so hungry… Read more »
wonderful and thoughtful explanation Christine, thank you.
What an interesting observation….
I wish the German Colombians could evacuate the German Venezuelans, especially if absolutely necessary. If anyone is unfamiliar with either or both of them, he ought to look them up.
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