Venezuela’s socialist regime launched a brutal campaign against dissidents this weekend, desecrating their homes to prevent them from continuing their protests and forcing detained individuals to issue heavily edited “apologies” on social media spliced with footage from Hollywood horror films.
Following the sham elections of July 28, the regime led by dictator Nicolas Maduro is currently waging a brutal campaign of repression against dissidents and peaceful protesters. The Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE), an arm of the regime, has described Maduro as “winner” but refuses to release documentation to support its alleged results.
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Maduro’s attempts to hang on to power for another six years have faced international condemnation and growing nationwide protests against the socialists who have ruled Venezuela since 1999. Maduro has responded to the protests with a massive campaign of repression using his regime’s repressive security forces.
As of last week, the Maduro regime’s crackdown on protests had led to Deaths (number) At least 24 individuals and any Arrest President Maduro has “destroyed” more than 2,000 individuals.Re-education.“
The Maduro government has restarted Surgery Tuntun (“Knock Knock”) is a crackdown campaign launched in 2017 to hunt down dissidents who protest against the socialist regime or post anti-regime content on social media. Targeted individuals are arrested after security forces “knock” on their homes, and are sometimes forced to “apologise” to Maduro and his regime.
Armando.info is Report On Sunday, he collected and analyzed about 20 pieces of video footage that the Maduro regime recently forced dissidents to record as part of its “knock-knock” operation.
Police target demonstrators protesting official election results in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 29, 2024, the day after voting, after electoral officials certified the reelection of President Nicolas Maduro. (Fernando Vergara/Associated Press)
The media outlet found that Operation Knock Knock videos were heavily edited and spliced together with “special effects”, and featured imagery and other media taken from characters and series of Hollywood horror films. Child’s Play Movies and Billy the Puppet Saw Franchise. The video appears to have been made by members of the Venezuelan military and then spread widely.
Armando.info also found that some of the videos it reviewed ended with visual effects that distorted or caricatured the faces of detainees “trapped” behind virtual iron bars, while musical themes from horror movie soundtracks played. A Nightmare on Elm Street play.
The media outlet cited the arbitrary arrest of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Oropesa. Detained The attack was carried out by Venezuela’s national security forces last week.
Oropeza broadcast live on her Instagram account, Showed The moment regime security officials entered her residence to detain her.
The Maduro regime filmed Oropesa’s broadcast and edited it with a Spanish version of the song. A Nightmare on Elm StreetFootage was released showing the opposition leader being removed from a plane, taken to a detention centre and then “incarcerated”.
“Operation Knock Knock continues,” the video ends.
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The media also highlighted the case of a Venezuelan woman identified as Iris Margarita Rincón Villasmil, who was recently arrested by Venezuelan National Guard authorities after posting a video on TikTok criticizing President Maduro.
After his arrest, Rincón Villasmil was forced to “apologise” to President Maduro in a video posted to Instagram by the account of a local branch of the Venezuelan National Guard.
“July 28th [when the sham presidential election took place] “I was influenced by a person who claimed to be Colombian and asked me to make a video angering President Nicolas Maduro and upload it to TikTok for $50,” Rincón Villasmil said in his “apology.”
“I owe everything he has given me. [Maduro] “We are the commanders of Detachment 111 of the Bolivarian National Guard, stationed in the port of Maracaibo. We ask President Nicolás Maduro and the country for forgiveness,” she continued.
“Hatred is now being fomented in the Bolivarian Republic, as intelligence services use technology and social networks to identify and monitor opponents through new mechanisms of massive repression,” Armando.info denounced.
The media outlet claimed to have obtained a copy of a document prepared in March by the Maduro government’s Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin), which “confirms the importance that the security service places on social media.”
Similarly, Venezuelan newspapers El Nacional Reported On Saturday Colectivos Socialist armed gangs serving directly under President Maduro have begun desecrating the homes of Venezuelans who have peacefully protested against President Maduro and the “results” of the fake elections.
An anonymous source confirmed the El Nacional In several homes in 23 de Enero, a low-income neighborhood in the capital Caracas, Colectivos.
Brand housing is El Nacionalis located in a region dominated by La Piedritathe largest and most powerful Colectivo Gang on January 23rd.
“There are too many houses. That’s because the rebels Colectivo An anonymous source said, “The area itself El Nacional.
23 De Enero residents have historically been sympathetic to the socialist regime, but peaceful protests against Maduro have been recently This incident occurred in the neighborhood after the fake presidential election on July 28th.
The 23rd Street of Enero, Caracas, Venezuela
The Cacerolasos protested the election of President Maduro and thwarted the collective actions of the Nazis and Marcaron.
Ahora esta prohibito protestor includes las casas, no, acts of violence… pic.twitter.com/xxDAiwAB8S
— Boris Sancho (@borissanchotv) August 10, 2024
“Knock, knock, knock. Like the Nazis, they mark the house with an X,” an unidentified man who filmed the branding iron inside the house said in a video that has gone viral on social media.
Venezuelan human rights lawyer Tamara Sujú Announced It was announced Sunday that recent brandings at the homes of Venezuelan protesters have been reported to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is currently conducting a lengthy investigation into alleged past crimes against humanity committed by President Maduro and his regime.
“We condemn before the ICC the vandalism of houses in the 23 de Enero neighborhood, marked with an X to identify opponents and demonstrators,” the Suju message read. “Let us not forget that the vandal group ‘La Piedrita’, led by Valentin Santana, is active in this neighborhood.”
Christian K. Caruso is a Venezuelan author documenting life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter. here.
