The state violence exerted against the poorest sectors of the Venezuelan population is recorded in police reports that are leaked to the press, with the claim that the official version of the blood facts be spread as indisputable truth and justification of a policy of hard hand against the deliquency.

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The mortality rates point to an uncontrollable strategy of extermination through extrajudicial executions that has been promoted by the highest governmental authorities. Ministers and police and military chiefs appeal to a neo-language, in the Orwellian style, which includes euphemisms, such as "striked down", "neutralized" and "discharged".

 

With the support of experts, Proiuris analyzed 100 reports that account for 171 murders. The official narrative is aimed at ignoring the identities of people stigmatized as slags that do not deserve crying. However, against the mechanisms of impunity, Proiuris also shows the faces and voices of the surviving victims, whose stories reveal that official truth is nothing more than a perversion of power.