Crime Zone: A Gang Sowed Fear in Barquisimeto in 1975 - La Prensa De Lara

Fifty years ago, people closed the windows before the sun went down. Mothers rushed the children playing in the squares and grandparents said that evil was loose in communities in western Barquisimeto. It was not an exaggeration. It was a warning born of fear. In the year 75, a criminal gang popularly known as “The Gang of 60” became the most feared scourge in the west of the city. Its members were young between the ages of 18 and 25, almost all…