By 11 January, no member of the Nicolás Maduro administration had made a statement about the events or announced a death toll.

[3] Attorney General Tarek William Saab and the Interior Affairs Minister did not respond to comment requests by BBC Mundo.

[1] Neither Venezuela's information ministry nor the chief prosecutor's office immediately replied to requests for comment by Reuters.

[7][8] Former prosecutor and director of the Public Ministry, Zair Mundaray, declared that the bodies of the deceased had a "ballistic pattern that indicates extrajudicial killings".

[10][11] Marino Alvarado, investigation coordinator of the organizations, declared that the relatives of the victims started to denounce the detention of people to be executed afterwards.