Since this Friday in the morning of March 19, 2021 (local time) users of social media report strong detonations in Cota 905 sector , it was due to a confrontation between members of the A.K.A Coqui gang and police officers.
According to reports, the terrorists tried to take over the command of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), which is why police officers closed the highway to El Paraíso and the accesses to Cota 905.
Thanks to the action of the officials of the special actions forces FAES, the Bolivarian National Guard and mixed police commissions, they were unable to take over the command and, in addition, Security forces managed to protect the people who were trapped in the Del Valle Tunnel.
4 men from Coqui gang were executed by their own group, 1 woman was wounded by a stray bullet in El Paraíso and was transferred to a health center, another 3 people could be treated .
In the surroundings of Cota 905, the inhabitants comment that they are closing everything to avoid any other inconvenience that involves armed confrontations.
Moment in which one of the terrorists steals a motorcyclist that was traveling through the area at bad times.
During the confrontation, civilians were trapped in the El Paraíso tunnel
News in development…
Pending task of the Bolivarian government to end this terrorist gang
Peace or war zones
For those who don’t know the area of the terrorist attack, Cota 905, The “Peace’s Zones” were born in 2013, when José Vicente Rangel Ávalos, then Vice Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace of Venezuela, sat down to negotiate with 280 criminal gangs, to work in a process of disarmament and social reintegration of criminals from 80 of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Venezuela. He offered them work, education, building materials, and means to be productive; all gangs asked that the police not enter their territories. This initiative was maintained as a verbal agreement, no official decision resolved the agreement.
The Bolivarian government wanted to negotiate with the gangs again.
Cota 905 neighborhood wasn’t on the list of areas to “pacify” in 2013, but with the numerous kidnappings, murders and stolen vehicles taken to the neighborhood, the CICPC carried out several security operations in 2015, to find the leader of its most powerful gang : Jesús Alberto Ramos Caldera, AKA El Chavo.
On June 22, 2015, a CICPC commission found him in San Bernardino, in Caracas ‘s downtown, and killed him. He was 22 years old. His role fell to the next man in the chain of command: Carlos Luis Revete, also known as El Coqui, who made a pact with other bands from El Valle, La Vega and El Cementerio sectors to reject any incursion into their territories by security officials and take care of each other.
The success of this non-aggression pact between rival gangs made El Coqui the most wanted man of the OLP (Operation for the Liberation of the People) that took place in the area in July 2015. Despite the raid massive left 15 dead and 252 arrested According to an official report, the criminals of Cota 905 were one step ahead and fled.
The many attempts to get rid of El Coqui, wanted for murder, kidnapping, robbery and extortion, continued. His name toured all the CICPC venues in the capital.
This sector of Caracas is the one that is leading the confrontations between the security forces and the most prominent criminal gangs in the Venezuelan media. And the people are tired of these criminals.
