This is how FAES, the death squad of the Chavez regime, terrorize Venezuela, operates.

"They go into your room and you come out of your house, if you resist, they kill you in your own room, they make fun of your family watching, they do not worry that the neighbors can hear when they strike you insane with steel pipes filled with cement", Graphic Chronicles of Caracas, an independent press agency on Venezuela that has been investigating the actions of this death squad for months.

"The poor put the dead," sources told Infobae. Is it since January 23, when the repression intensified?, are the most humble neighborhoods such as Pinto Salinas, Petare and Cotiza where more deaths are recorded. And after each murder, the witnesses repeatedly call FAES, these "men in black".

So they go there, hooded so that you can not see their faces and the truth is that there is very little public information about this body. There are no profiles of FAES officers, we know almost nothing about their structure … We only know the type of behavior they adopt: intimidation, house searches and executions.

The FAES were created on July 14, 2017 by Nicolás Madurowho explained his foundation "to fight against crime and terrorism". If in 2016, the Bolivarian National Police was responsible for 22% of deaths in the country, the following year, after only six months of existence, the FAES has increased this unfortunate record of 10%, to 32% .

For Provea (Venezuelan Program for Education and Action in the Field of Human Rights), the prestigious human rights NGO, which seriously documents the dead and arbitrary detentions, "The Bolivarian National Police (PNB) Special Action Force is a death squad that is spreading terror in popular areas by systematically carrying out executions, arbitrary searches, home thievery and ill-treatment. detainees. ".

On 25 January, after the FAES murdered five people in Carora and El Tocuyo, in the state of Lara, MP Luis Florido exploded on Twitter: "It is unacceptable that security agencies use their regulatory weapons to shoot unarmed citizens, communication must silence death in the hands of the unworthy regime. "

Your operating mode It's military. They militarily take on a specific area, as if it was an occupation army, and usually "hunt" their objectives.explains Keymer Ávila, a researcher at the Institute of Criminal Sciences and professor at the Central University of Venezuela at Cocuyo Effect. "This is not a citizen security logic in which an offender must be prevented or arrested as part of the law, no, in his case, they understand that they must stop removing "elements" that are not people but enemies, he adds.

Ávila holds FAES responsible for a "Slaughtering drip": "According to official figures, 4,998 people died in the hands of the state security forces in 2017, or about 14 people a day.What operates in the country is a mbadacre that took place, of which the FAES of the GNP is a key player.If we take these figures, we could perhaps estimate about 1,500 victims of GNP, which represents more than 30% of the national total.

The academic also denounced the fact that although the FAES belongs to the PNB, it does not control the events or demonstrations between its functions. The PNB has another specialized law enforcement division with specific training and no weapons. deadly for the confinement of this type of events. "These are differentiated spaces of the same body with very different functions, which should not be mixed or confused. It is very delicate that the FAES is used for the control of the demonstrations, because they have neither the formation nor the necessary resources, and the consequences would be fatal, because their formation is not of confinement but of mortal attack ".

They arrive at night, establish illegal curfews and kill. Since they operate in poor neighborhoods, there are fewer complaints. But there is and thanks to them, his murderous action is known.