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The president said that the disarmament of prisons is a necessary, this week after authorities regained control of El Rodeo II Prison
President Hugo Chavez pledged today to humanize prisons in Venezuela through a process of transformation of the national prison system that allows end the mafias that control some of the prisons.

'I pledge to work to humanize the prisons, "Bush said during a telephone intervention in Venezuela Any program, broadcast by Venezolana de Television (VTV).

Chavez emphasized that 'me in jail I was useful and that is what I long for anyone, that prison is a school to go forged for life, for humanity, for peace, for happiness, for living life '.

The president was jailed two years after failing a coup against President Carlos Andres Perez in February 1992 and left the prison following a pardon granted in 1994 the Social President Rafael Caldera.

About the entrenchment of mafia groups for 27 days held hostage to the inmates at the El Rodeo II, in central Miranda state, Chavez said that this 'implies complicity, collection of money-values ​​of capitalism'.

The Head of State recalled his years in the Yare prison and acknowledged that operations such as collecting money are part of the culture that prevailed in the prison system.

'That was there unfortunately, deeply planted in a very corrupt system. It's like a cancer, we must fight against it, a transformation of values, spiritual and real physical, "he said.

'I appeal to values ​​and that we all participate, inmates, family members, "he said.

The president reiterated that the disarmament of prisons is a necessary measure, 'but you can not do with massacres. Here we must raise the flag of the supreme human rights. "

'At other times I'm pretty sure that (making the Rodeo) had ended with a slaughter, "he added.

According to press reports, the National Guard (military police) near El Rodeo II and after 27 days, on Tuesday controlled a prison riot that killed 12 inmates and three to the military.