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NEW: Venezuela has "disappeared" hundreds of its citizens in recent years, according to a new report provided exclusively to @nytimes.
Those citizens include Ariana Granadillo, who survived.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/world/americas/venezuela-forced-disappearances-Maduro.html?smid=tw-share …
What does it mean to be "disappeared"? Venezuelan government agents entered Ariana's home brandishing guns but not a warrant, taking her away, she said. Over a week, they confined, beat, interrogated and nearly suffocated her, then let her go as abruptly as they had taken her in.
Her sister searched for her for days, unable to pry any word from officials.
Ariana's only apparent offense, the only reason to detain and beat her? Her father’s second cousin was a colonel the Venezuelan government viewed as a political opponent.
Secret detentions, known under international law as “forced disappearances,” are playing a critical role in the Venezuelan government’s efforts to control its population, according to documentation by @ForoPenal and @RFKHumanRights.
Venezuela's decision to "disappear" many of its citizens is reminiscent of the right-wing Latin American dictatorships that Maduro and Chávez denounced. Argentina and Chile were infamous for secretly detaining — and often murdering — people in the 1970s and 1980s.
Keep in mind while reading this piece secret detentions on Venezuela: Forced disappearances are considered by international law to be a crime against humanity if they are proven to be systematic.
Eso es viejo, como descubrir el agua tibia.
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Reporters and journalists should stop referring to regimes such as ours as “Venezuela” ... or “ Syria” and the like... it is their regimes that disappear people not “their” hapless countries. They should know better and use instead “the government of such and such” ...
As a former journalist with nearly three decades experience: journalism relies on a lot of shorthand descriptions and readers are perfectly capable of understanding that Venezuela (the country), for example, doesn't disappear people. Indeed, that reading would make no sense.
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