María Pineda Central Hospital in Barquisimeto, which had been taken over by the soldiers in order to control access and security; f) Some media affirmed that the Minister of People’s Power for the Prison Service was present during the inspection; however, on January 25, the Minister denied these assertions and accused Globovisión, the private television channel, and the webpage of El Impulso, a private newspaper with regional circulation, of being responsible for the confrontation, because they had given advance notice of the planned inspection of the prison inmates; g) The next of kin of the prisoners had assembled outside the prison to obtain information of the situation of the inmates; however, security measures had been established that did not allow them to approach to within 1,500 meters of the entry to the prison; h) At the time of the events, approximately 2,498 men and 143 women were imprisoned in the Uribana Prison, and no inspection had been made since 2009; i) The day after the events, the Minister of People’s Power for the Prison Service announced that the Uribana Prison would be vacated; j) During the days following the events, there had been a series of transfers of inmates to other prisons; however, the next of kin were not informed of the destination of their respective family members, or the names of the dead and injured; k) Several national human rights organization filed a complaint before the Prosecutor General on January 29, 2013, requesting an investigation of the events that had occurred in the prison, the punishment of those responsible, the identification of the deceased inmates together with the cause of death, and that their next of kin be advised accordingly, and l) The Vice President of the Republic announced on January 29 that he had asked the National Assembly to expedite the investigation of the uprising in order to know exactly what happened. 6. For its part, the State provided the following information (supra having seen paragraphs 6 and 7): a) The country’s prison authorities had ordered an inspection of the Penitentiary Center of the Central Occidental Region on January 25, 2013; b) The pertinent and necessary measures for conducting the inspection had been taken, following discussions with those deprive of liberty in the presence of the Public Prosecution Service, the Ombudsman’s Office, next of kin of those deprived of liberty, the Bolivarian National Guard, and the Custodial Rapid Response Group (GRIC); c) The inspection could not be carried out “owing to newspaper articles published in certain media with the evident intention of creating a climate of uncertainty and destabilization in the country, alluding to a supposed “military take-over of the prison” that was never intended”; d) As a result of this rumor, “a group of those deprived of liberty, who exercised a negative leadership in the prison, tried to take control of the situation violently, resisting any type of internal inspection of the prison by the authorities; thus they began to shoot repeatedly against the members of the Bolivarian National Guard who were outside the Penitentiary Center and security and custody officials”; 4