State violence – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:36:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png State violence – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 How is state violence organised in Venezuela? https://onvenezuela.com/how-is-state-violence-organised-in-venezuela/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-is-state-violence-organised-in-venezuela Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:35:58 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=4094

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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