The faceless owners of political prisoners: a machinery of perversion

The Venezuelan regime, led by figures such as Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, and Diosdado Cabello, has systematically cultivated a 'machinery of perversion,' according to this analysis. This perversion is described not as a byproduct of corruption but as the fundamental logic of power established in 1999. It operates by creating mechanisms that prevent solutions and transform every necessity into an opaque, irresolvable problem.

Examples illustrate this pervasive perversion: citizens seeking to report a family member's forced disappearance are directed to the very official who ordered it. In public hospital emergency rooms, desperate patients are extorted for bribes to receive pain relief. Most recently, a mother who lost nearly everything, family, home, and possessions, was required to present birth certificates for herself and her surviving daughter to register as a victim.

This systematic perversion, a combination of authoritarianism, deceit, corruption, incompetence, threats, cynicism, extortion, mockery, impunity, and absolute ruthlessness, defines the unilateral and grotesque relationship between the government and Venezuelan families. While individual cases are condemnable, the article highlights the immense web of perversions targeting political prisoners as particularly infamously cruel.

Political prisoners endure not only inhumane and degrading confinement but are also ensnared by this perversion machine. This apparatus functions as a deceptive mechanism designed exclusively to maintain each prisoner in a perpetual state of defenselessness, opacity, and unending uncertainty, preventing any possibility of resolution or relief.