Cabello announces deployment for procedural review in detention centers

Published at: 10/06/2026 01:35 PM

The vice-president of the sector for Politics, Public Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, reported on a national deployment aimed at addressing the procedural situation of citizens deprived of their liberty.

During a meeting at the National Assembly (AN), the senior official explained that the prison system currently has 58,714 inmates, of whom 12,425 people have a procedural delay of more than two years without having received a sentence, a figure that represents an immediate priority for State authorities.

“This is a loving job, but it doesn't mean we're going to become serious crime advocates. We must exclude, in a clear and proven way, those cases involving violations and with drug trafficking in greater quantities,” said the Sectorial Vice President for Policy, Public Security and Peace.

These reviews will be carried out in an exhaustive manner, both in prisons and in preventive detention centers, where there are several respective files under waiting conditions, a process that will include interviews with detainees and even their families to learn more about the cases.

Cabello added that this plan of action will maintain firmness in the State's daily battle against drug trafficking. In this regard, he stated: “Drug trafficking, we who have a battle every day, sometimes we find ourselves in the case of a person with five kilos of organic drugs in the state of Táchira, that person sentences 15 or 16 years and suddenly a person who tried to extract 500 kilos of cocaine lasts 12 years and that was his greatest sentence.”

The implementation of this program will involve the active participation of the competent bodies, who will travel throughout the country to ensure that the administration of justice is strictly in accordance with the law. Under this directive, the Executive seeks to clean up judicial processes and combat existing irregularities, reaffirming what was expressed by the sectoral vice-president when he pointed out that “these are things that we are going to encounter there and encounter every day”, maintaining the deployment until the total purification and optimization of the prison system is achieved.

Mazo News Team