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A study by the Jesuit Fathers Research Center “Centro Gumilla” and the Venezuelan Program for Education Action in Human Rights (Provea) showed that, during the first six months of 2020, the Venezuelan police and military bodies murdered 1,611 people.
On average, it is 9 people per day, and most of the victims were poor youth, between 18 and 30 years of age.
“The thousands of victims left by institutional violence in Venezuela, they are the consequence of a State policy that combines the encouragement provided by the high authorities for the commission of the abuses, and the structural impunity given the takeover of the justice administration system by the ruling political project. Officials act with full freedom given the certainty that their conduct will not be investigated or punished, and because they have the support of governors, ministers and other high-ranking public management figures, ”it was stated on the Provea website.
According to the agencies, there are also discrimination in the cases that are investigated and in those that don’t.
“On August 21, officials of the Bolivarian National Police attached to the Special Action Forces (FAES) component, assassinated citizens Andrés Eloy Nieves Zacarías and Víctor Manuel Torres, workers of the Guacamaya TV station in the state of Zulia, a communication that maintains a profile of support for the Nicolás Maduro. To the relief of the victims’ families, the Public Ministry acted quickly and four days later the officials allegedly responsible for the crime were arrested, ”it was reported.
The organizations indicated that “the behavior is very different when the victims do not have a ‘political godfather’. First, the police version is assumed to be true that there was a confrontation and, consequently, the Public Ministry does not act ”.
“It is important to note that, in the case of the workers of the Guacamaya Television (…) the official version presented by the FAES was that the people had confronted the officials and died because of that. This is the version in almost all cases in which not only this component of the National Police carries out executions, but also when other police agencies are involved. In most of the murders perpetrated by the security forces, it is presumed carrying out extrajudicial executionsIt was added.
Decomposition
In the breakdown, the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) is responsible for 417 murders, which represents 25.8% of the total. It is followed by the Corps of Scientific Criminal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC) with 400 cases, which is equivalent to 24.83% of the total.
Further back come the state police with 399 alleged executions, equivalent to 24.77%; the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) with 222 cases; and the municipal police with 57 alleged executions.
The difference in sums is attributed to joint actions.
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