July 25, 2024

How is state violence organised in Venezuela?

Retrieved from Business insiders

These forces usually operate during the night or early morning hours, the logic being a military takeover of neighbourhoods as if they were enemy territory; the FAES acts as an army of occupation and generally “hunts” their targets. Their way of operating is fundamentally military, they do not follow a logic of citizen security in which a criminal must be stopped or arrested within the framework of legality. In their case do not view people as people but as enemies. By Keymer Ávila. Full Text-> OPenDemocracy

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