The Government of Venezuela went door to door collecting all guns and now murders its own people.

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Police and security forces have killed nearly 18,000 people in Venezuela in instances of alleged “resistance to authority” since 2016. Interior Minister Néstor Reverol reported in December 2017 that there were 5,995 such cases in 2016 and 4,998 in 2017. Venezuelan security forces killed nearly 7,000 people in incidents they claimed were cases of “resistance to authority” in 2018 and the first five months of 2019, according to official figures cited by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Nobody has yet compiled detailed information as to how many of these killings by security forces have been extrajudicial executions, but OHCHR concluded that “many” may constitute extrajudicial killings. Human Rights Watch documented several such killings in 2019.

Between 2015 and 2017, Venezuelan security forces swept through low-income communities during what was known as the “Operation to Liberate and Protect the People” (Operación de Liberación y Protección del Pueblo, OLP). Participating security forces included the Bolivarian National Guard, the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), the Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigative Police (CICPC), and state police.

These raids resulted in widespread allegations of violations such as extrajudicial killings, mass arbitrary detentions, mistreatment of detainees, forced evictions, destruction of homes, and arbitrary deportations. In November 2017, Venezuela’s then-attorney general said security forces had killed more than 500 people during OLP raids. Government officials repeatedly said the OLP victims were armed criminals who had died during “confrontations.” In many cases, witnesses or families of victims challenged these claims. In several cases, victims were last seen alive in police custody. 

FAES, a special police force created in 2017 to combat drug trafficking and criminal organizations, replaced the OLPs in security operations. FAES officials have committed egregious violations, including killings and torture, with impunity in low-income communities that no longer support Nicolás Maduro. OHCHR reported that “authorities may be using FAES and other security forces as an instrument to instill fear in the population and to maintain social control.”   

Impunity for Abuses
Venezuelan authorities reported that, as of June 2019, 44 people were detained and 33 arrest warrants were issued for people allegedly responsible for killings during demonstrations in 2017 and 2019. Authorities claim five FAES agents were convicted of attempted murder and other crimes for events occurred in 2018, and that another 388 FAES agents were under investigation for alleged crimes committed in 2017 and 2019.

Impunity for human rights abuses, however, remains the norm. OHCHR reported in July 2019 that factors contributing to impunity include “lack of cooperation by security and armed forces with investigations,” “the tampering with crime scenes” by security forces, and de facto immunity of senior officials, and lack of judicial independence.

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/venezuela

philperth2010 wrote on Mar 13^th, 2023 at 2:28pm:



There were ten times more air strikes in the covert war on terror during President Barack Obama’s presidency than under his predecessor, George W. Bush.

Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush.

aquascoot wrote on Mar 13^th, 2023 at 3:10pm:


My post referenced the Noble Donald Trump who dropped more bombs on Yemin than all his  predecessors combined....Bush Jr started the war....I note you are no longer defending your bullshit!!!

aquascoot wrote on Mar 13^th, 2023 at 3:12pm:


I don't think Venezuela is anyone's "Socialist utopia" except for a few lunatic Right-wingers like yourself, Aqua.   My Socialist utopia is Australia in the 1970s when Gough was PM.   

Brian Ross wrote on Mar 13^th, 2023 at 4:42pm:

See. You are an American suckjob! Specifically a Democrat American suckjob!

aquascoot wrote on Mar 13^th, 2023 at 3:12pm:


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That was always a huge right wing lie. The only thing that AOC supported was the right of Venezuela to select their own government without US intervention.

The point is - the 2nd Amendment is there because the British took guns off the Americans so they could easier be ruled and killed before the War of Independence.

The British did that to their own people and the Americans seceded and became a new Nation.

The 2nd Amendment is there to guarantee that Tyrannical Governments cannot impose Tyranny on its people.

The first thing Tyrants do is disarm the people so they can easily be ruled and killed - Venezuela is only one of a long list of Tyrannical Governments in History who have done this - Nazi Germany is another.

Guns are power in the hands of the people. Without guns people are slaves. With guns people are Citizens who will not stand for Tyranny.

When you have the case that 800 people a day die in the USA from eating Junk Food and 35 die a day from guns, and Leftist Tyrants want to disarm people to make them powerless but let them fee MacDonald's Hamburgers and Coke to the kiddies.

I trust a Citizen with a gun before I trust a politician with power.

History bears that out.