{"id":29528,"date":"2017-06-19T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/?p=29528"},"modified":"2023-04-24T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T21:01:03","slug":"sale-alta-funcionaria-prisiones-venezuela-pero-mantiene-politica-permisiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/es\/noticias\/noticias-del-dia\/sale-alta-funcionaria-prisiones-venezuela-pero-mantiene-politica-permisiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale alta funcionaria de prisiones en Venezuela, pero se mantiene pol\u00edtica permisiva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

El presidente de Venezuela Nicol\u00e1s Maduro anunci\u00f3 el reemplazo de la ministra de Servicios Penitenciarios Iris Varela, pero las pol\u00edticas instituidas, que posibilitaron el crecimiento de las redes criminales dentro de las c\u00e1rceles del pa\u00eds parecen abocadas a mantenerse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mirelys Contreras Moreno fue designada como a la cabeza del Ministerio del Poder Popular para el Servicio Penitenciario, seg\u00fan un bolet\u00edn de prensa del 15 de junio<\/a>. Reemplazar\u00e1 a Varela, quien renuncia para participar<\/a> como diputada en la Asamblea Constituyente de julio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Varela es emblem\u00e1tica de la pol\u00edtica carcelaria del gobierno. La funcionaria dirigi\u00f3 el actual ministerio desde su creaci\u00f3n en julio de 2011<\/a>, y fue la \u00fanica ministra que qued\u00f3 en el gabinete de Maduro que se hab\u00eda posesionado bajo el mando de Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, quien falleci\u00f3 en 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Varela desarroll\u00f3 estrechos lazos con los jefes de la prisi\u00f3n<\/a> en Venezuela, conocidos como \u201cpranes\u201d, y admiti\u00f3 que autorizaba a los presos para que manejaran las asonadas por s\u00ed mismos<\/a>. Luego de seis a\u00f1os bajo su direcci\u00f3n, el sistema penitenciario en Venezuela est\u00e1 fuera del control del gobierno<\/a>, como lo evidenciaron los recurrentes disturbios<\/a> letales y el descubrimiento de fosas comunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contreras, que tambi\u00e9n ha estado en el ministerio desde su creaci\u00f3n, fue hasta ahora viceministra de atenci\u00f3n al privado y privada de libertad, divisi\u00f3n t\u00e9cnica del Ministerio del Poder Popular para el Servicio Penitenciario, seg\u00fan el organigrama del ministerio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La probabilidad de que la salida de Varela marque un cambio de pol\u00edticas es remoto. Desde un brutal mot\u00edn carcelario de un mes de duraci\u00f3n<\/a> que llev\u00f3 a la creaci\u00f3n del actual ministerio en 2011, la pol\u00edtica carcelaria en Venezuela en esencia dej\u00f3 a los presos el control de las penitenciar\u00edas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esta pol\u00edtica ha abierto la puerta a mercados il\u00edcitos que han monopolizado los pranes. La ausencia casi total de control estatal tambi\u00e9n ha allanado el camino para que los pranes se extiendan por fuera de las prisiones<\/a>, con la formaci\u00f3n de las llamadas \u201cmegabandas\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VEA TAMBI\u00c9N:<\/strong><\/span> InDepth: Prisiones<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlos Nieto Palma, director de la asociaci\u00f3n sin \u00e1nimo de lucro Ventana a la Libertad<\/a>, coment\u00f3 que la nueva ministra seguir\u00e1 las pautas de la saliente.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo creo que exista cambio alguno, la nueva ministra era la vice ministra de atenci\u00f3n a los privados de libertad y muy cercana a Varela, creo que seguir\u00e1 la misma pol\u00edtica, es m\u00e1s creo que Varela seguir\u00e1 mandando a trav\u00e9s de ella [Contreras]\u201d, coment\u00f3 Nieto a Insight Crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRecuerda que a Varela la sacan por la Constituyente, esa es ll\u00e1mame raz\u00f3n de su salida, como candidata no pod\u00eda seguir ocupando el cargo, s\u00f3lo por eso\u201d, a\u00f1adi\u00f3 Nieto. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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