A former campaign chief of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro was killed in Caracas after allegedly being thrown out of a high-rise building.
According to reports, 38-year-old Sheila Yarivette Silva Jiménez was thrown from the eleventh floor of the high-rise Hugo Chávez building by her partner, 28-year-old Angel Moisés Mosqueda Wermer, in what is a suspected homicide.
The pair allegedly got into a heated argument, with Wermer suffering multiple stab wounds before he threw Jiménez out the building. She died instantly.
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“It was around 9 pm at night and I knew that they were having a massive argument,” said one resident. After he threw her out the window, he went downstairs and tried to escape, but here on the ground floor, there were some neighbors playing bingo that caught him.”
Jiménez had previously worked as a campaign chief for the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) running two separate election campaigns and was recently serving as the assistant to the Mayor of Caracas Jorge Rodríguez.
The PSUV has faced multiple allegations of rigging elections, having presided over four contested elections over the past five years, which include legislative, regional, and presidential elections.
Last week, the Venezuelan opposition alleged that the government had tampered with the results of regional elections, with the PSUV winning 17 out of 23 available governorships despite trailing significantly in all pre-election polls. The State Department rejected the outcome, pointing out that the regime had blocked the presence of independent international electoral observers and noting irregularities such as the closing voting centers in opposition strongholds and the manipulation of ballot layout.
In July, the government also reportedly doctored the results of a poll to elect members of the “national constituents assembly,” a fraudulent lawmaking body designed to strip the power of lawmakers and replace them with trustworthy pro-government cronies, including Maduro’s wife and daughter.
“We know, without any doubt, that the turnout of the recent election for a national constituent assembly was manipulated,” said Antonio Mugica, CEO of the election technologies company Smartmatic, at the time. “We estimate the difference between the actual participation and the one announced by authorities is at least one million votes.”
Smartmatic provides Venezuela with its electronic ballot system.
Amid the recent economic and humanitarian crisis, Caracas is now the most violent city in the world, surpassing the likes of Acapulco, Mexico, and San Pedro Sula, Honduras, with a homicide rate of 130.35 per 100,000 residents. Other cities, such as Gran Barcelona, Cumana, Barquisimeto, Valencia, Maturin, and Ciudad Guyana also feature in the top 50.
Around 125 people have been killed in protests across Venezuela this year, while government officials last year failed to prevent a notorious cannibal from killing and eating prisoners. Looting and other larceny crimes are also extremely common, fueled by the nation’s growing shortages in food and medicine and the plummeting value of the national currency, the bolívar.
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