Published at: 15/04/2026 09:00 PM

(Police Chronicle, April-December 1993; Latest News, December 17, 1993; and Elite, April 23, 1991)

• 229,139 civil servants and volunteers were recently deployed during the Safe Holy Week 2026 operation, with the objective of ensuring that the more than 13,500,000 people who traveled to enjoy the country's natural beauty, returned to their homes without accidents or fatal incidents of violence to regret. Thus, Venezuela is now one of the safest countries in the world, with the lowest crime and road insecurity rates recorded in its history.
• However, reviewing the chronicles of 30 April ago, the Holy Weeks and weekends of the 90s offered a high percentage of violence, crime, traffic accidents and police excesses that ended the lives of thousands of people and made Venezuela one of the countries with the highest crime and violence rate on the planet.
• In fact, during the Major Week of 1993, while the mass exodus of millions of vacationers flooded beaches and tourist resorts, 82 homicides were recorded, at the rate of 9 deaths per day, which was a true record to be taken into account in the Guinness Book, which included children, the elderly and workers being hit by “stray bullets” and even an official of the Metropolitan Police (PM) being shot in the face provided by agents of the Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP). These were alarming numbers, circumstances and facts.
• On the weekend of October 25, 1993, 35 violent deaths were recorded in Caracas, after the highest police authorities announced with fanfare that the violence in the city was under control. The Disarmament Plan was under way, the result of which was a total failure.
• Caracas, in the 90s, was the scene of weekends where, according to police reports, the number of murders was higher than in other cities in the world in situations of war or fratricidal struggles. A human being's life was worth less than a pair of sports shoes. This is the case of a student at Santa María University who was stabbed to steal his shoes at the end of a piper festival.
• As well as the cases of: Marisela Mendoza Dávila, a 19-year-old mother; Jairo Jesús Leal, 23; Ronald Guaita Mújica, judo coach; and Belinda Bello Chacón, 19; also killed to strip them of their branded shoes.
• Venezuela, given the high degree of decomposition of the ruling political class, also experienced it in the social sphere, with a sustained increase in the levels of poverty, crime and urban violence.
• In 1994, the homicide rate was 21.79 per 100,000 inhabitants, with 4,733 murders, establishing one of the highest intentional homicide rates at the time. In Venezuela, for that year, 13 intentional deaths were recorded daily.
• Children, the most vulnerable, were front-page victims, who frequently appeared in the red pages of the police chronicle of that decade of extreme urban violence:
• César García Villarroel, a 3-year-old boy, murdered on September 19, 1993 by members of the National Guard (GN) in front of his parents during a police operation in Lomas de Urdaneta.
• Edwin Romano Cisneros, 9, murdered on June 20, 1993, in the Caribbean Urbanization of Catia by armed individuals from that sector.
• Luis Alejandro Alvarado, 14, killed in June 1993 by a bullet in the eye to remove a watch, in the La Cañada sector on January 23.
• Carla Sonimar Escalante, three years old, was the 17th victim of the month of June 1993, who was shot to the head by members of a criminal gang in Cota 905.
• Carlos Enrique Echenique, three years old, was the 18th victim of the month of June 1993, murdered in his sleep and criminal groups were shooting near his home in San Agustín del Sur. A stray bullet hit him.
• Jessica Karina Delgado Torres, 8, was murdered on December 12, 1993 while doing her homework and a gang outside her house shot at the place, located in the La Cumbre neighborhood of Antímano.
• Mikares Ayares Calles, 17, was shot to the forehead inside her apartment on January 23, when rival gangs were shooting at each other.

Mazo News Team