A/HRC/45/CRP.11 CASE 23: OLHP in Jardines del Valle, Caracas (March 2017) 1221. On 15 January 2017, President Maduro announced the reformulation of the OLPs into the Operations for People’s Humane Liberation (OLHPs). He stated, “Necessarily, after some mishaps that occurred in the OLPs, I have decided to restructure the OLPs”.2178 He noted that the Government had “dedicated several weeks to study the achievements and the errors, the abuses, that there were in some cases and we have taken up again the concept of humanism of the operations of liberation of the people”.2179 The 10 March 2017 OLHP 1222. One of the first OLHPs began at around 4 a.m. on 10 March 2017 in Los Jardines del Valle sector of Caracas, between 2nd, 9th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th streets. 2180 Los Jardines del Valle is on the slope of a hill overlooking the city. Venezuelan human rights defenders have suggested that its position and its proximity to La Cota 905 and El Cementerio neighbourhoods makes it a strategically important drug and arms trafficking route. 2181 The 2178 2179 2180 2181 YouTube Video, Luigino Bracci Roa, Situación en Venezuela, Maduro restructurará OLP, depurará la PNB, incorporará 10 mil policías y aumentará cuadrantes, minute 7:24, 15 January 2017, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seV4j3Bhft0. Ibid., minute 8:01. Asociación Control Ciudadano, Violaciones de Derechos Humanos 2017. Caso de derechos humanos violaciones en El Valle, 28 February 2017, available at: http://www.controlciudadano.org/coyuntura/violaciones-de-derechos-humanos-2017-casoviolaciones-de-ddhh-de-la-olp-en-el-valle. Mission Interview with C4FF12 in April 2020 and Mission telephone conversation with C4FF26 in June 2020. 241