Colectivos organization
also: non-state civilian militias, pro-government armed civilian groups, collectivos, militia
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Venezuelacountry · 9Michelle Bacheletperson · 6United Statescountry · 5John McAvoyperson · 3CLAPoperation · 1Colombiacountry · 1Hugo Chavezperson · 1John Boltonperson · 1
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Venezuela funded
Colectivos book_quoted
“Furthermore, some may be surprised to learn that Venezuelan's government has allowed for the formation of armed civilian militia known as colectivas. These colectivas are local militia, kind of like back in the, you know, 1700s, that type o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 35:37
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United States book_quoted
“They don't like suppress people. They don't repress people. They actually, as you're going to see, have risen to the defense of their neighbors in these towns when the U.S. tried to skirt their border along Colombia. And also with a more re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 36:41
Hugo Chavez recruited
Colectivos book_quoted
“As a patriot within the army who understood that his country was not free as long as the U.S. and Europe owned its land and government, Chavez organized a clandestine group dedicated to reviving the vision of Venezuela's neocolonial hero, S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 41:57
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▶ 35:37
Furthermore, some may be surprised to learn that Venezuelan's government has allowed for the formation of armed civilian militia known as colectivas. These colectivas are local militia, kind of like back in the, you know, 1700s, that type o…
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They operate beyond the authority of the state as part of a grassroots defense strategy against foreign interference. So it's almost like they have co-opted the stay behind unit concept and armed local militia that don't necessarily report …
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of Figueroa's grieving mother and other casualties that she had heard about on her visit to Venezuela, Bachelet made no mention of opposition violence at all in her report. Instead, she focused her critique entirely on the Venezuelan govern…
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And in the report from the U.N., it offered no evidence, not a single name of someone who was starved that opposed the Maduro government. In addition to clap, Bachelet directed her ire at Venezuela's colectivos, demanding Caracas disarm and…
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while accusing them of exercising social control. As with Clapp, Besselot's view of the collectivos directly parroted claims of U.S. officials like John Bolton and Marco Rubio, who had branded the groups as disorderly terrorist gangs that M…
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promoted the arming of their civilian populations beyond the state's authority. Months before the publication of Bachelet's report, British journalist John McAvoy spent two weeks living with a collectivo in Caracas attempting to answer that…
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McAvoy asserted such a description was a historical. He explained her narrative discounted the fact that many collectivos were established decades before Chavez's rise. So they had been around for it would be like our like groups that do mi…
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Were they around since the 1960s as self-defense militias? Though colectivos overwhelmingly lined up behind Chavez once he was elected, McAvoy insisted Bachelorette's report stripped the Venezuelan political situation of all historical cont…
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Colectivos played a key role in obstructing a foreign-directed mercenary invasion of Venezuela in May of 2020. With this context, Bachelorette's call for Colectivos to disarm appeared equally to demand a Venezuelan surrender of its last lin…
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So what had been happening in the interim, just so you guys know, and this is something that I researched separately. These collectivos are like in what we would refer to as like every city and county. And the Venezuelan people knew that ba…
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and the drugs. And they had armed their citizens to be able to keep narco-terrorists out of their country. And there's a lot of reports in other forums on international news sites that you can read about them interdicting drugs. So one of t…
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when they have nothing to do with it. These armed militias stopped them from doing that. As we're going to find out, one of these armed militias actually saved a CIA-funded assassination team from gaining territory, actually approaching the…
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in the area noticed a suspicious vessel bobbing in the distant sea. The fishermen alerted the colectivos and Venezuela's state security forces. And remember, the colectivos are their militia. They coordinated to apprehend the boat. On board…