These Dantean scenarios happened in Venezuela and were included in a report released last week by the United Nations’ top human rights body. The detailed accounts of torture in clandestine detention centers read like dispatches from the darkest days of right-wing military dictatorships in South America during the 1970s. But they happened to people suspected of plotting against the “socialist” regime of Nicolás Maduro. By: Francisco Toro. Full Text -> WinnipegFreePress.
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