They demanded more rights, protested against the "inhuman" conditions in which they were forced to live. This is why the inmates of 'module 2' of the 'Uribana' prison, in the state of Lara, in southwestern Venezuela, had been on hunger strike for days. Twenty-one of them have now died of drug intoxication defined by the local media as the 'cocktail of death'. The complaint comes from an NGO in Caracas, while the authorities have confirmed the death of 13 inmates.
145 intoxicated
Another 145 were intoxicated after ingesting the drugs, probably to "draw attention to their living conditions", announced the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons (Ovp). Another 4 inmates – the organization specified – transferred to the Torocon penitentiary center (in the state of Aragua) also died of poisoning.
During the mutiny, the prison authorities had left the prison, thus allowing the inmates to take control of the infirmary, where the medicines were kept. After the first news of the dead, relatives of the prisoners went to the prison to get information of loved ones.
The assault on the infirmary
For its part, the ministry of the penitentiary service of Caracas has confirmed the death of 13 inmates following the occupation by a group of "insubordinate" prisoners of the infirmary, specifying that the prison authorities have asked for the help of the staff of the “Bolivarian National Guard”. The note from the ministry underlines that the drugs ingested by the prisoners included "antibiotics, antihypertensives, antiepileptics and alcohol", a fact which, it is underlined, "caused the intoxication of a large number of prisoners".
The Uribana Prison
The "Uribana" prison", it is also specified, "is part of the 70 prisons in the country where the new national prison regime is applied, which - it is emphasized - goes beyond the old model of the past, characterized by the deplorable conditions of anarchy and violation of human rights". – See more at: http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/Venezuela-21-detenuti-morti-per-un-cocktail-letale-di-farmaci-d54c6099-0637-418a-8820-627c1b73808a .html#sthash.x8Ja2PiL.dpuf
