{"id":14837,"date":"2024-09-26T11:58:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14837"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:58:33","slug":"venezuelas-repression-is-modeled-on-horror-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14837","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s Repression Is Modeled on Horror Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;As part of &#8220;<em>Operaci\u00f3n Tun Tun<\/em>&#8221; (Operation Knock Knock), the regime is showcasing its crusade against dissent on social media and national television. Videos typically begin with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EnnioDM\/status\/1819109046932090964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">footage<\/a>&nbsp;of a protester, followed by music from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UmGHP49_eXM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and scenes of heavily armed officers detaining the individual. Reports indicate that detainees have been subjected to torture, cruel treatment, and drugs to extract&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/venezuela\/2023\/10\/01\/un-informe-de-la-onu-revelo-que-las-torturas-a-los-opositores-en-venezuela-buscaban-extraer-confesiones-o-declaraciones-falsas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">false confessions<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TQSPLsGXIi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/09\/venezuelas-repression-is-modeled-on-horror-movies\/\">Venezuela&#8217;s Repression Is Modeled on Horror Movies<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Venezuela&#039;s Repression Is Modeled on Horror Movies&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/09\/venezuelas-repression-is-modeled-on-horror-movies\/embed\/#?secret=Lds9vY1odK#?secret=TQSPLsGXIi\" data-secret=\"TQSPLsGXIi\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As part of &#8220;Operaci\u00f3n Tun Tun&#8221; (Operation Knock Knock), the regime is showcasing its crusade against dissent on social media and national television. Videos typically begin with footage of a protester, followed by music from A Nightmare on Elm Street and scenes of heavily armed officers detaining the individual. Reports indicate that detainees have been subjected to torture, cruel treatment, and drugs to extract false confessions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/09\/venezuelas-repression-is-modeled-on-horror-movies\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,431,660,875,659,1495,661,741],"class_list":["post-14837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-free-speech","tag-latin-america","tag-repression","tag-tyranny","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14838,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions\/14838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}