Operation Veneratio News Today

Asunción, Jan 4 (Prensa Latina) Paraguayan authorities recovered the control of the Tacumbú penitenciary from the hands of prisoners, "one of the 10 worst prisons in the world", President Santiago Peña was quoted as saying today by the ABC Color newspaper.

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña confirmed in an international interview with CNN that he was inspired by his El Salvador colleague Nayib Bukele when launching Operation Veneratio this week, a move to dismantle virtual ownership by the notorious Rotela Clan drug gang of the Tacumbú Penitentiary in Asunción.

One law enforcement officer and 11 inmates were killed Monday during the so-called Operation Veneratio at Asuncións Tacumbú Prison through which the administration of President Santiago Peña put an end to unthinkable privileges granted to incarcerated drug lord Armando Javier Rotela and his gang, which virtually ran the place.