Is The Venezuelan Government Using 'Death Squads' To Stay In Power?

FAES officers are accused of targeting petty criminals in poor areas and opponents of President Maduro, to whom they remain loyal. Photographs on social media show them drawing weapons and transporting a lifeless man

Daily Mail: Venezuela's Death Squad: Masked special police unit is accused of killing more than 200 as President Maduro desperately clings on to power

* Bolivarian National Police's Special Action Forces (FAES) was established in 2017
* It was set up by President Maduro to fight terrorism and national emergencies
* But rights groups say it targets anti-government protesters and petty criminals
* The FAES is believed to be responsible for 205 deaths over the last six months
* The squad remain loyal to Maduro who is under increasing pressure to resign

Armed and masked members of Venezuela's 'Death Squad' have killed more than 200 people over the last year, according to the country's leading rights' group.

President Maduro established the Bolivarian National Police's Special Action Forces (FAES) in 2017, ostensibly to tackle emergency situations such as terrorism and hostage-taking.

But rights groups say the uniformed squad, who possess elite military training and weapons, are responsible extra-judicial killings of hundreds of people in non-extraordinary situations.

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Update: Photos emerge showing Venezuela's 'Death Squad' with lifeless bodies, victims described as anti-government protesters (FOX News)

WNU Editor: It looks like these "death squads" are modelled in the same manner as the "death squads" in Nicaragua .... Amnesty International Accuses Nicaragua Of Extrajudicial Executions (October 19, 2018). Opposition activist leaders are targeted in the poor barrios, and are then taken out.