Posted on 11/08/2019 9:54:21 AM PST by Enlightened1
Back in February Reuters reported on murders being carried out in Venezuela’s slums by a special police force known as the FAES. Wednesday the AFP published a follow-up on this story that reveals the death toll has climbed to over 800.
Surviving relatives of FAES victims say that the real purpose of the group is to “sending these assassins to intimidate people and make sure no one rises up to contest the violations of our rights.” They aren’t even subtle about it. As you can see in the image above, they’ve adopted the Punisher’s logo as their official symbol. But this isn’t a comic book and the people they are murdering are very real.
In May, 21-year-old Luis Ariza was pulled out of his own house and shot while his wife and family were kept inside so they couldn’t see what was happening. According to the official FAES report, Ariza was shot because he fired a gun at a police station and was wanted for murder. But the giveaway is the fact that back in 2017 Ariza spent three months in detention after being arrested at an anti-Maduro protest. Many of the victims of the FAES have had some connection to protests:
The FAES have added a new, terrifying layer of intimidation and violence. Originally created by Nicolas Maduro in 2017 to crack down on “organised crime and terrorism”, they have mutated into his enforcers, crushing dissent in the poor barrios where loyalty to the Socialist government has dissolved…
Often, families say, victims had done no more than attend a protest. One prominent dissident Chavista told me that they, and the national intelligence service SEBIN, were “hitmen on the orders of the government to carry out terrorism of the state”.
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It’s not just the FAES that is cracking down on government opposition. The AFP story also contains this incredible statistic: “According to official data, 17,849 people died from 2016 through May 2019 in cases involving “resisting authorities.” For comparison purposes, that more than all the murders that occurred in the Unites States in 2018. The US has nearly 10 times the population of Venezuela.
The AFP published a video supplementing this story (in Spanish) but it can’t be embedded. You can watch it here.
Democrats taking notes.....
Coming to America..... sad
If the DEMs are just now taking notes, then they are several decades behind the Clinton.
Yep!
It’s coming here too.
Putin is proud...
Ju vill be enlightened or ju vill DIE!
Are these Venezuelan citizens hired in the Death Squads, to kill other Venezuelans? I heard Russia was sending a ‘Monitoring Team’ there some months ago. Maybe to protect what was left of the oil fields.
They are way behind the Clintons.
A worker’s paradise where most of the work is digging graves.
We had to "follow the process" they smugly declared. They then told me that I could not tell what would happen in the future and even if Chavez had committed any crimes prior to the coup the proper response was to have him arrested and given a fair and proper trial. I was total barbarian for thinking otherwise.
I was also right.
Lots of FARC members.
Democrats taking notes.....
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And making PLANS.
What ANTIFA aspires to.
Only 831? These guys are pikers. Che Guerava did almost that well on his own initiative. Guevara came in charge of La Cabaña Fortress prison. It is estimated that between 156 and 550 people were executed on Guevara’s extra-judicial orders during this time.
And this was WAY before the al-Qaeda and ISIS commandos came on the scene.
What is going on in Mexico on an almost daily basis probably is many times this number, but mostly nobody is getting excited about that. After all, in Mexico it is “just business”.
this is what young ignorant spoiled millenials are asking for in a president who offers free everything.. free education, free healthcare, homes, cars, just no freedom to think on one’s own nor disagree with the master controllers.
Do we have to do what Augusto Pinochet did?
What is disgusting is this 3 yr coup fight, is going on without firing a shot! being civil on one side and breaking every rule and law on the otherside.. because they can... no one has stopped them!!!!!!!!!
usually there is a fight.. military... arms... and a war.. not so with the GOP... and the dims have done it for so long, they think they can!
And the heretical antipope Francis is AOK with that.
Cry me a river. Latin Americans think socialism is the bee’s knee’s. They vote for it every time. And when it predictably fails they start shooting their way out if it. And then they proceed to vote for more socialism.
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