Opposition Lawmaker in Venezuela Alleges Fresh Massacre in Tumeremo

Twelve bodies have been unearthed from a landfill in eastern Venezuela’s Bolivar state, where another massacre earlier this year saw 17 miners gunned down by criminal gangs, according to Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Americo De Grazia. According to information from inhabitants of Nuevo Callao in Tumeremo, the bodies of three women and nine men – supposedly missing since Oct. 5 – were dumped in the Tumeremo Landfill. Reporting the case in a series of tweets, the lawmaker blamed the deaths on security officials as well as the leader of the gang, who has also been implicated in the March 4 massacre. “Family members of those kidnapped from the Nuevo Callao mines Wednesday #Oct5 by Anderson Pereira, heir to El Topo, know nothing,” wrote De Grazia, adding that a group of people is still being held in the area. More…