Editing Secret police (section)

=== South America ===
==== Brazil ====
During the [[Vargas Era|Getúlio Vargas dictatorship]], between 1930 and 1946, the [[Department of Political and Social Order]] (DOPS) was the government's secret police.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Viviane Godinho Corrêa |first1=Michelle |title=DOPS - Departamento de Ordem Política e Social - História |url=https://www.infoescola.com/historia/dops/ |website=InfoEscola |access-date=8 August 2021 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

During the [[military dictatorship in Brazil]], DOPS was employed by the military regime along with the [[DOI-CODI|Department of Information Operations - Center for Internal Defense Operations]] (or DOI-CODI) and the [[National Intelligence Service of Brazil|National Intelligence Service]] (or SNI), and engaged in kidnappings, torture, and attacks against theaters and bookstores.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=1997|title=Brazil - The National Intelligence Service, 1964-90|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+br0121)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405014912/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+br0121)|archive-date=2015-04-05|access-date=2021-02-09|website=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref>

==== Chile ====
The [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|National Intelligence Directorate]], or DINA, was a powerful secret police agency under the rule of [[Augusto Pinochet]], which was charged with killings and torture related to repression of political opponents.<ref>{{Cite news|last=de Onis|first=Juan|date=1977-08-13|title=Secret Police Agency Is Abolished in Chile|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/13/archives/secret-police-agency-is-abolished-in-chile-chile-disbands-its.html|access-date=2021-02-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Chilean government investigations found that over 30,000 people were tortured by the agency.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Mariano Castillo|date=2017-06-03|title=Chile convicts 106 former intelligence agents|url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/03/americas/chile-secret-police-convicted/index.html|access-date=2021-02-09|website=CNN Digital|language=en}}</ref>

==== Venezuela ====
During the dictatorship of [[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]], the [[Dirección de Seguridad Nacional|Seguridad Nacional]] secret police investigated, arrested, [[torture]]d, and [[Assassination|assassinated]] political opponents to the Venezuelan government.<ref name="María Ramírez Delgado">{{cite web|last=Ramírez Delgado|first=María|date=11 February 2021|title=El Miedo que nos Enseñó la Seguridad Nacional. A Propósito del 23 de Enero|trans-title=The Fear National Security Taught Us. About 23 January|url=https://www.fundacionciev.com/el-miedo-que-nos-enseno-la-seguridad-nacional-a-proposito-del-23-de-enero/|access-date=20 March 2021|website=Fundacionciev|language=es}}</ref><ref name="archive">{{cite web|last=Damiano|first=Daniela|date=30 November 2015|title=La Dictadura de Pérez Jiménez no Hizo de Venezuela una Potencia|trans-title=The Pérez Jiménez Dictatorship did not make Venezuela a Power|url=https://amnistia.ning.com/profiles/blogs/el-irrespeto-a-los-dd-hh-durante-el-regimen-de-perez-jimenez-no-d|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914203726/https://amnistia.ning.com/profiles/blogs/el-irrespeto-a-los-dd-hh-durante-el-regimen-de-perez-jimenez-no-d|archive-date=14 September 2018|access-date=20 March 2021|website=Amnistia|language=es}}</ref> From 1951 until 1953, it operated a prison camp on {{Interlanguage link|Isla Guasina|lt=Guasina Island|es}}, which was effectively a [[Labor camp|forced labour camp]].<ref name="María Ramírez Delgado" /> The Seguridad Nacional was abolished following the [[1958 Venezuelan coup d'état|overthrow of Pérez Jiménez]] on 23 January 1958.<ref name="María Ramírez Delgado" /><ref>{{cite web|last=López F.|first=Carlos Eduardo|date=4 December 2016|title=#MemoriaFotográfica: A la Caza de la Seguridad Nacional|trans-title=# PhotoMemory: Hunting for National Security|url=https://www.elimpulso.com/2016/12/04/memoriafotografica-la-caza-la-seguridad-nacional/|access-date=20 March 2021|website=El Impulso|language=es}}</ref>

During the [[crisis in Venezuela]] and [[2017 Venezuelan protests|Venezuelan protests]], [[Vice President of Venezuela|Vice Presidents]] [[Tareck El Aissami]] and [[Delcy Rodríguez]] have been accused of using [[Bolivarian Intelligence Service|SEBIN]] to oppress political demonstrations. SEBIN director and general [[Manuel Cristopher Figuera]] reported that SEBIN would torture political demonstrators during interrogation sessions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHLYABYiS8.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/HFHLYABYiS8| archive-date=2021-11-17 | url-status=live|title=CÓDIGO 58- Entrevista a Manuel Cristopher Figuera (Jueves 11 DE JULIO 2019) 3/5|website=www.youtube.com| date=12 July 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>