Venezuela: Who are the Colectivos?

Government opponents fear the armed groups more than police, but for Maduro, the colectivos are likened to ‘angels of socialism’.
Caracas, Venezuela – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido arrived at a rally of several hundred waiting supporters last month in San Bernardino, a middle-class Caracas neighbourhood.
The stage where Guaido was set to speak was at the bottom of a long narrow street, where men, women and children had gathered.
Not long after Guaido arrived, tear gas engulfed the area, thrown by masked and heavily armed civilians on motorcycles.
From the stage, an organiser appealed to the crowd to crouch down, stay calm and not run, especially given the large number of elderly people and children there.
As soon as the gas dissipated, Guaido got on the stage just as more motorcycled men began firing live rounds, presumably to frighten off the opposition leader. He refused to budge. On this occasion, no one was killed or injured.
Venezuelans call these irregular armed gangs colectivos or collectives, while the UN Human Rights Commission describes them as para-police, or paramilitary forces loyal to President Nicolas Maduro.

These people raped women, children, robbed, killed, tortured, and were never made accountable for their actions, on the contrary, as long as they were loyal to the regime, they were paid, given motorcycles, guns, etc. They were thugs who terrorized the general public. That is what trump wants, Venezuela was the blueprint of what they want to do here.

Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/5/9/venezuela-who-are-the-colectivos

I hope they suffer greatly for their decisions and choices to vote against any human decency let alone their own safety and interests,

cells.

My response to anyone who supported for voted for this clown show and now has concerns or regrets. It’s their own fault that “the consequences for attacking law enforcement are not severe, potentially emboldening others to commit similar acts of violence”. And anyone who is a member of the FOP who doesn’t like those consequences can point the finger right at themselves.

They own all of it. Dumbasses.

asking for donations. I asked the caller if the FOP supported the felon. He couldn’t or wouldn’t answer. I told him to go blow himself.

because they work for a private entity that contracts with the local or state FOP association for a flat fee. They are merely telemarketing firms using the FOP 'affiliation' to dupe prospective donors.

“Them” being the police unions that supported him. Sadly, they will never return the favor and disavow the guy who used them as lollipops (suckers.)

He will throw his voters under the bus, figuring he will never need them again.......

Carnage and Chaos are coming to America, and all wearing a MAGA hat..............

if elected. There were police officers beat shitless four years ago. What...like Tuberville you "never saw the video"?

What...three hours of cops getting beat and bear spray in the FUCKING FACE didn't change your stance on voting for him FOUR years later??

(Gonna be saying that a lot over the next 4 years)

.... then SPIT in your face after winning the office of the pResidency with your same vote.

FAFO - as djt shits all over the LEO's color blue and specifically the ones who every day defend our Constitution.

Do something about. The January 6th traitors are no longer under federal protection. You now have a chance to deliver the punishment they deserve.

I guess I'll be laughing a lot over the next four years.

all the way down ballot. Also when they stop blaming Democrats for everything.

Fucking told you what he was going to do. Somebody needs to shake some sense into you.

... which by the way raises the question of why you would endorse a liar.

-- Mal

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I mean, wtf did they expect?

"But the leopard wasn't supposed to eat MY face!"

In one sense it's all very predictable. And idiotic.

Especially since they Both Sided their argument dragging Biden into the orange one’s crap.

What violent criminals did Biden pardon?

So one 80 year old in declining health vs 1500 young thugs. Seems about the same.

You can wear camo, you can wear blue, you can wear a military uniform. You can be white as snow. Traitor doesn't see anything but bodies feeding his bottomless pit. He'll sacrifice all humans, and won't stop til he's dead.

This union, the rwnj, the religious zealots, the stupid, the racists, will all die as a sacrifice to a gaping maw that has no reason for existence except to take more.

And still endorsed him.

We all knew he was going to pardon them. He told us! They had to have known. Do they blindly endorse candidates?

6 members of the Seattle Police Department were at the riot. 2 got fired over it.

Just shy of 50 hours since the inauguration.

Anyone that would be so stupid as to vote for Donald Dump and then complain about what he does gets what they deserve.

They aren’t the only ones hurt

They knew what he was but endorsed him anyway.

0 fucks given here.

The GOP only wants them for props or to harrass minorities.

Aaaaaaand, the leopards eat another face. At least, hopefully, people will realize the full monstrosity they voted for. Hopefully.......

I think immediately of Uvalde. I grew up there.

I have a completely different view of police authority after that school shooting.

or assaulting law enforcement officers"?

President Biden didn't pardon any of the January 6th violent rioters, Trump did.
Trump pardoned them all, including Daniel Rodriguez, one of the men who attacked D.C. police officer Michael Fanone with a stun gun, and who received a sentence of 12 and a half years from Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

President Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, who was wrongly convicted of killing 2 FBI agents and who spent nearly 50 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
Now "Mr. Peltier is almost 80 years old and has several compounding health conditions, including kidney disease, diabetes, near-total blindness, and an untreated aortic aneurysm. He requires a wheelchair." (Wikipedia)
(Rodriguez and the others who attacked and beat up Capital police on January 6th are all fairly young and in good health, unlike Peltier)

Peltier's sentence was commuted to indefinite house arrest by Biden.
His case doesn't compare to the violent cop-killing January 6th convicted rioters' cases.
The FOP's statement denouncing both Trump and Biden is bullshit!
Fuck the FOP!

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The union knows Donnie is going to give the cops full immunity against any prosecution for crimes and they're absolutely thirsting for this

all levels and that includes cops. Sooner rather than later, they and/or their followers are going to kill a few cops.
It will be too bad for those left behind, but actions, like endorsements and votes, have consquences.