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In Venezuela, ‘enforced disappearance’ is used by the regime to keep people in line

Earlier this week I wrote about the continued deterioration of democracy in Venezuela. Specifically, the Maduro loyalists on Venezuela s packed Supreme Court announced they were handing control of two opposition parties to individuals who had previously left the parties and joined the Maduro regime. But today a human rights group has published a report documenting how politicallly-motivated detentions have become a major tool of repression in Venezuela. The numbers are staggering:

via hotair.com