Venezuelan prosecutor Katuiska
Plaza has asked the Attorney General's office to issue an arrest warrant for
Manuel Rosales, the former governor of Zulia state and recently elected mayor
of Maracaibo, on charges of illicit self-enrichment with public funds.
The Mayor of Maracaibo, Gian Carlo Di Martino, called for a national government takeover of the Regional Police Force of Zulia state. Di Martino’s call comes in the context of a surge of kidnappings, murder and extortion in the frontier state, which borders Colombia.
