According to radio Monumental 1080 AM, some 2,000 police and military personnel began the operation in the early hours of the morning to move the clan of drug traffickers led by Armando Javier Rotela, who dominates the national penitentiary system, together with another 1,000 inmates, in order to decongest the facilities and weaken the groups in the prison.

The commissioner Nimio Cardozo, head of Anti-Kidnapping of the National Police, in a radio station statements and reproduced by the newspaper Última Hora, that the advance of the military forces carrying out Operation Beneratio has already managed to control 70% of the main areas of Tacumbú, dominated by he Rotela criminal clan. The authorities decided to begin the intervention in the National Penitentiary at 5:00 (local time) on Monday and at 7:00 they transferred 400 prisoners in large buses, despite a leak a day earlier about the procedure of the operation between police and soldiers, the officer said.

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