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Venezuela: fewer cases, higher lethality
Keymer Ávila 24 de abril de 2024 Last month saw the launch of the third report of the Monitor of Use of Lethal Force in Latin America and the Caribbean, a work of six universities and six research centers in nine countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador,...
Statement | Cease state terrorism in Venezuela
We, the undersigned, members of the Latin American Association of Criminal Law and Criminology (ALPEC) together with colleagues specialized in the study of violence, citizen security, criminal policy and human rights in the region, as well as activists, intellectuals...
Official Uniforms Flood Venezuela’s Black Markets
17 Nov 2023 Venezuela Investigative Unit (InSight Crime) A striking number of security force uniforms are appearing on Venezuela’s illicit markets, becoming favored garb for criminals to commit crimes in competition with officials who also routinely commit abuses...
Poca rigurosidad en la selección y bajos salarios, elementos que inciden en las prácticas criminales de las policías
En Enero de este año, la Unidad Investigativa de Venezuela de InSight Crime, publicó el reporte "Venezuela 2024: Elecciones y consolidación criminal". En este trabajo sistematizan 10 elementos considerados claves en las dinámicas criminales que hay en el país y que,...
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...
