At AlertaVenezuela, we have denounced the expansion of the detention and disappearance of foreign citizens and dual nationals by the de facto regime to obtain…
A couple of weeks ago, we raised an alert about the spread of the “hostage diplomacy” phenomenon in Venezuela, fearing that states would support this…
Amnesty International published its report “Detentions without a trace: The crime of enforced disappearance in Venezuela,” in which it analyzes the situation of 15 people…
As of 2025, Venezuela continues to be one of the countries with the highest number of political prisoners in the Western Hemisphere. Under the authoritarian…
“Hostage diplomacy” has been used by several countries and organizations to influence the political and economic decisions of other governments. It is not a new…
On March 26, 2025, the NGO Acceso a la Justicia published the report “Effective judicial protection and judicial independence of the Supreme Court of Justice…
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…
AlertaVenezuela has warned on previous occasions about the risk that technical assistance could be used by the government as a distraction, to evade its responsibility…
That has been Maduro’s strategy for more than a decade. Thus, the expression “revolving door,” used to refer to the Soviet penitentiary system, has gained…
In April 2023, the lawyer for journalist Roland Carreño had stated that the trial only neded one more witness to testify, so the case was…