Political persecution in Venezuela is neither sporadic nor does it respond to certain circumstances. It is systematic, with intervals of lesser or greater intensity depending…
Venezuela returned to the international monitoring radar during the first half of March, increasingly revealing the wounds of the post-election context, along with other concerns…
The executive director of Espacio Público, Carlos Correa, was intercepted in downtown Caracas by alleged hooded officials on the afternoon of January 7, 2025, according…
At the beginning of July, the Venezuelan organization PROMEDEHUM published the report “Defying the darkness. Resistance and Resilience of Civil Society in the Labyrinth of…
A few days after the arrest-disappearance of human rights defender Rocío San Miguel, the Maduro government added the word “disappeared” to the list of terms…
Maduro’s pre-electoral repression attacks continue and are escalating. On January 18, the government had ordered the activation of the “Bolivarian Fury” plan, which included at…
On August 24, 2022, three human rights defenders and lawyers, Ana Leonor Acosta, Kelvi Zambrano and Alonso Medina Roa, unofficially learned of a criminal investigation…
In the first days of July, multiple arbitrary arrests have been carried out by the Nicolás Maduro regime against trade union leaders, human rights defenders…
On May 4, 2022, the Permanent Commission on Foreign Policy, Sovereignty, and Integration of the National Assembly -voted but not elected in December 2021- began…
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