Can We Finally Talk about Maduro's Desaparecidos? | Caracas Chronicles
Desaparecidos. There are books, songs, films, murals; it’s almost a genre in Latin American culture, a thick corpus of stories where a car with no plates spits out a squad of fast and efficient security officers who knock down a door in the middle of the night and rips out a family by taking a human being with them, and throws them to a dark limbo that might include isolation, torture, rape and death, where there’s no official record, no accountability, and in many cases no end: not even a body...
