Venezuela recovers remains of 14 missing miners
Source: AP
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Searchers on Monday recovered the remains of 14 people belonging to a group of over 20 missing miners believed to have been killed by a gang seeking control over a wildcat gold claim in southeastern Venezuela, government officials said.
Police investigating the massacre made the grisly discovery in an area of jungle in Bolivar state near where the miners disappeared a week ago, Attorney General Luisa Ortega said in an interview with Globovision.
The massacre last week rocked Venezuelans accustomed to morbid tales of violence in a country with one of the world's highest homicide rates and widespread impunity. Fearing unrest after the state's governor denied the killings took place and outraged relatives blocked a highway to Brazil in protest, President Nicolas Maduro's government dispatched more than 1,000 soldiers and Cabinet officials to search for the missing miners.
The circumstances behind the massacre remain unclear. Ortega said she believes 21 people were killed by a criminal gang led by an Ecuadorean. But opposition politicians and relatives who have said they witnessed the attack put the number at 28 and contend local officials were involved, a claim the government denies.
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T)he government denies."
The same government denied there was any massacre in the first place.
The guy who denied everything, the state governor, is a Maduro crony.
Back in the 1980's, the far-right government of Guatemala slaughtered hundreds of natives, and Reagan's crony in that country said "Nothing happened, it's all false," even though later he admitted he was never in that area.
