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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...
War policy, partisan politics, and public security
June 9, 2020 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila For the past few weeks, due to the events in Macuto and Petare, I have been asked about the implications of intertwining the two events. With the information that has been made public so far given the background of the...
Do Venezuelans support criminal gangs?
July 2, 2020 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila I have been asked this question several times over the past few days. Sometimes more than asking me, people expected me to second that idea. I have yet to read a research paper or study stating that all Venezuelans across the...
Illicit opportunities structure
June 12, 2020 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila The past few days have been hectic, and the more information and recounts we have the murkier and more confusing everything becomes. Our institutional problem, unfortunately, not only affects the State but other actors that...
Coronavirus as a dispositive
May 4, 2020 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila Coronavirus has become the ultimate global biopolitical dispositive. Once the pandemic is overcome in health terms, the mechanisms of control will be difficult to reverse. The pandemic is real in biological and health...
Homicides in Venezuela let’s go over the figures again
April 1, 2020 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila On 22 January, an official press conference was held without detailed data and reports on crime statistics in the country. The following are some keys to their analysis, which we have already mentioned on other...
Police hypertrophy and admission processes in the security forces
March 2, 2020 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila For several weeks I have been consulted about the ratio of police officers who have a criminal record, the current recruitment and selection processes, the regulatory basis that governs these processes, as well as the...
What’s the debate?
December 16, 2019 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila Recently, a series of rumors, disqualifications and attacks against me and my investigations have been launched, through various networks , to which I had decided at the time not to attend because it was...
Use of lethal force in Latin America: A sinister political priority
September 9, 2019 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila In Venezuela the rate of civilian deaths killed by members of the state security forces now exceeds 15 for every 100,000 inhabitants. These deaths, in the hands of state security forces, should be considered homicides. he...
Necropolitics: the exercise of uncontrolled power in Venezuela
September 3, 2019 Keymer Ávila | @Keymer_Avila In 2017, 26% of homicides died at the hands of security forces. In 2018 this increased to 33%, meaning that 1 in 3 murders are the result of intervention by the State security forces. n this article I will present a...
