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Radio Fe y Alegría | Keymer Ávila: “In Venezuela there is a drip massacre”
8 de diciembre de 2016 Javier Barrios Lawyer, professor at the UCV, with a Master's in Criminology and Criminal Legal Sociology, researcher and professor. Keymer Ávila, thank you very much for attending us on Radio Fe y Alegría, in the program "A Fondo" We are...
Acronyms are transitory, politics remains
July 23, 2022 | Keymer Ávila This July 14, the PNB Special Actions Force (FAES) celebrates five years of its public activation . Since its inception, this division has been accused by various organizations and institutional actors of committing serious...
Executed in their own homes
July 16, 2022 | Keymer Ávila A few weeks ago we published our most recent investigation. The FAES does not depend on anyone. Death as a currency , in which we try to reflect on the "FAES" phenomenon as a manifestation of...
FAES: Five Years Violating Human Rights and Counting
An investigation shows how FAES, the deadly National Police division, has been violating human rights with impunity in its five years of existence June 3, 2022 | Keymer Ávila On July 14th, the Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales (FAES) of the National Police...
Abuse of lethal force most extreme in Venezuela
February 16, 2022 | Keymer Ávila The following lines are a synthesis of the main findings of a research on the use and abuse of lethal force in Venezuela, conducted in the framework of the second edition of the Lethal Force Monitor, a regional project consisting...
A Snapshot of Hell
October 8, 2021 | Manuel Llorens & Keymer Ávila This week, the video of an execution, followed by an audio clip of an officer explaining how to cover up the evidence, went viral on social media. The reaction shows how immoral our security forces are... and our...
What happened in La Vega?
January 25, 2021 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila The first thing that we must clarify is that in order to talk about a specific case like that of La Vega, it is necessary to do field work within the community itself, almost of a police nature, this is not our...
Violence, patronage, and criminal governance in Venezuela
January 15, 2021 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila The context of a recent blod bath in two Caracas' slums tells a complex story of how violence gets out of control. It is very difficult to generalize, each slum has its own universe, actors and logic. Last year, when...
What is deadlier in Venezuela: its security forces or COVID-19?
September 21, 2020 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila The Covid-19 pandemic is not only a health problem, it also is a first-order disciplinary and security device. The Covid-19 pandemic is not just a sanitary problem; it is also a first-rate security and disciplinary...
Right to personal liberty in Venezuela 2019 (II)
July 27, 2020 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila In this second installment on the most relevant data from the Chapter on the Right to Personal Liberty of the Provea 2019 Annual Report, which we were in charge of, we will focus on detentions for political...
Is there an armed opposition in Venezuela?
August 12, 2020 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila There is no way to equate the forces of the opposition, almost non-existent within the country from an organic and unitary point of view, and the military hegemony currently held by those who control the State apparatus....
How is state violence organised in Venezuela?
June 23, 2020 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila Why is the Venezuelan police so lethal and does it organisation play a role in creating a lethal police force? In mid-February I spoke with Ayelén Oliva for Nueva Sociedad's podcast "Qué pasa" about how state violence is...
