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Venezuelan special police unit blamed for abuses, killings
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-police-factbox/venezuelan-special-police-unit-blamed-for-abuses-killings-idUSKCN1PS07W----------------
Rights groups say the National Police’s Special Action Force (FAES) has been of particular concern since Maduro created the unit in 2017.
Numbering some 1,300 officers armed with Chinese and Russian weaponry, the force has killed more than 100 people in low-income neighborhoods over the last six months without any subsequent investigations, local rights group Provea said in a Jan. 26 report.
As Maduro fights to hold onto power in the face of tightening U.S. sanctions and Western powers’ support for opposition leader Juan Guaido, the FAES has proclaimed its loyalty to his government.
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