The people still in power in Venezuela are corrupt bureaucrats and military officers engaged in embezzlement, knuckle trafficking and human rights abuses. Since being tested by uprisings in 2014 and 2017, The regime has reinforced a repressive apparatus that uses armed civilian gangs known as colectivos, specialized police units and anti riot forces of the National Guard. to terrorize and control the civilian population through arbitrary arrest, beatings, detentions and killings. The Maduro regime has gone so far as to arrest the chief of staff for interim President Juan Guaido, Roberto Moreo. (08:22–08:34)
CLAIM
Asserts that the Venezuelan regime uses armed gangs and specialized forces to control the population.
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