Une fois de plus, les commandos des forces spéciales sont particulièrement dénoncés dans le cadre de ces violences. Agents planted arms and drugs or fired their weapons into walls or the air to suggest the victim had “resisted authority.” After some killings, family members said, they had difficulty obtaining their loved ones’ bodies, autopsy reports, or death certificates. A Reuters investigation reveals that convicted criminals are within the ranks of an elite police force created by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Alexis Lira, a onetime policeman turned lawyer whose brother was one of the victims in Guarenas, says most families of people killed by cops lack resources and wherewithal to challenge the FAES’ accounts of its operations. She filed a complaint with the investigative police. For all its notoriety, though, the FAES is highly secretive, known for signature dark masks and black uniforms bearing skull insignias but no name tags. 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. OHCHR investigated 20 cases of people killed between June 2018 and April 2019 in depth, hearing nearly identical reports that FAES agents fatally shot young men during arrests in circumstances in which lethal force was not necessary to protect life.

According to the transcript of his testimony, Coraspe emerged from the crash, ran toward a FAES vehicle and got in. Le président Nicolás Maduro a créé la With a national identity card that had been on Duarte, Brito identified the Caracas officer’s corpse. Then “they would separate young men from other family members before shooting them,” the investigators reported. Nearly 5 million people have migrated, about 15% of the country’s populace. With Lira bound for Guarenas, Martínez called his FAES supervisor, Alexander Uzcategui, and told him about the alleged extortion, transcripts of testimony by Uzcategui show. His brother was Fernando Lira, a 39-year-old former policeman who had become a graphic designer. Hailed by the president as a new means to fight surging crime and violence, the FAES has become as feared as the criminals it was meant to target, especially in poor districts where hardship fans political instability. On ignore même combien ils sont réellement à porter l’uniforme. Its hard-hitting tone was especially eye-opening, given her political background.

José Oliveros An officer who rose through police ranks despite a conviction as an accessory to murder. The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. “I don’t.”. Venezuela ont été causés par les forces de sécurité du pays, dont les FAES, les forces tactiques spéciales de la police. By converting their local currency into dollars, they preserve the long-term value of their earnings.

González said Coraspe volunteered the silver 1997 Honda Civic himself. The bullet pierced his heart, his mother said, and though no autopsy results were ever released to the family, she learned later that he had died from the wound in the hospital. Reuters Investigates offers several ways to securely contact our reporters, In his testimony to prosecutors, Coraspe, whose phone call set off the episode, said FAES officers after the shootings told him to tell investigators “it was a confrontation.” Instead, he said, “I told the officers what really happened.” Â, The defendants are scheduled to appear in court in March; the trial is expected to take months. At 5 a.m. one day in January 2019, Special Force officers stopped Kelvin Otero Paz, 24, and his brother-in-law, Alan Molina, 24, as they left home for work, said Otero Paz’s aunt, Ana Paz.

The autopsy report determined that one bullet hit Rodríguez in the heart, another in the right side, his mother said. The text offered a basic transaction that many Venezuelans pursue to keep their income from being eroded by hyperinflation.