{"id":76800,"date":"2024-07-26T01:44:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=76800"},"modified":"2024-07-26T01:44:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:44:46","slug":"coming-soon-to-fusa-a-snapshot-of-venezuelan-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/coming-soon-to-fusa-a-snapshot-of-venezuelan-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon to FUSA: A Snapshot of Venezuelan &#8220;Democracy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-76801 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Venezuela-map-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Venezuela-map-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Venezuela-map-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Venezuela-map-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Venezuela-map-850x425.jpg 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Venezuela-map.jpg 1104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/investigations\/when-terror-swept-through-guarico-venezuela\/\">When Terror Swept Through Guarico, Venezuela<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Stories from a community abused by Venezuelan security forces<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left\">On the night of April 20, 2022, hundreds of heavily armed police and military officials descended on the municipality of Altagracia de Orituco in the central Venezuelan state of Guarico with orders to hunt down the Tren del Llano gang and its collaborators in what the government labeled Operaci\u00f3n Trueno \u2013 Operation Thunder. But instead of directly confronting the gang, they rampaged through the region, terrorizing and traumatizing the population.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left\">In the months that followed, lawyers from the human rights organization Defiende Venezuela traveled the region documenting evidence of the abuses committed by the security forces and taking witness testimonies from their victims. The following stories are based on those testimonies.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-76802 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vp-1024x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vp-1024x488.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vp-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vp-768x366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vp-850x405.jpg 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vp.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/investigations\/the-operation\/\">I. The Operation<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/investigations\/operation-trueno-castillo-family\/\">II. The Castillo Family<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/investigations\/operation-trueno-fernandez-family\/\">III. The Fernandez Family<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/investigations\/operation-trueno-carlos-ramirez\/\">IV. Carlos Ramirez<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69097 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Govts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Govts.jpg 636w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Govts-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Govts-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Terror Swept Through Guarico, Venezuela Stories from a community abused by Venezuelan security forces &nbsp; On the night of April 20, 2022, hundreds of heavily armed police and military officials descended on the municipality of Altagracia de Orituco in the central Venezuelan state of Guarico with orders to hunt down the Tren del Llano&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17631,3786,3958,5445,2717,8560,9614,13,74,9806,13991,14643,14588,5594,5540,8543,14111,6265,5729,5770,483,484,5589,15334,2863,6984],"tags":[6865,8561,7497,6124,761,9676,506,17737,8378,6336],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76804,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76800\/revisions\/76804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}