What does 6,000 extrajudicial killings by police sound like?

Oh, but you remind yourself that Argentina’s and Chile’s dirty wars have long been over, as dictators like Pinochet are brought to justice.

Well, there is one part of South America where these dirty wars have not stopped – in fact, they have started. Venezuela, one of the few countries in South America with no history of a dirty war is resurging as the dirty war capital of the Americas, a horrific title as the bodies and mass graves turn up, a title that one had hoped had long passed for history.

Miguel has the whole shocking story here.