I left Venezuela almost five years ago; I made this decision when I understood that I did not want to spend the years of my youth there. I understood this in 2014 when the overall social unrest unleashed one of […]
Me fui de Venezuela hace casi cinco años; tomé esta decisión cuando entendí que no quería pasar mi juventud allí. Esto lo entendí en el 2014, cuando el descontento social general desató una de las muchas olas de protestas que […]
The National Assembly (AN) appointed in November 2019 the Preliminary Commission for the creation of the Electoral Nominations Committee. The commission is made up of seven members of parliament from the opposition and four from the ruling United Socialist Party […]
The Maduro government’s latest power play – in which loyalist judges appointed the board that will oversee end-of-year elections – is evidence to many in the Venezuelan opposition that talking is fruitless. But negotiations remain the only route to a stable […]
They are husbands and wives, daughters and sons, merchants, doctors and medical students. Enforced disappearance—a common practice by Venezuelan government officials—aims to prevent those being arbitrarily detained from defending themselves, scaring them into submission and silence. As we work to […]
THE FIRST OF ITS KIND ANALYSIS PULLS TOGETHER DATA ON MORE THAN 700 CASES OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE, OFFERING RARE INSIGHTS INTO THE MADURO REGIME’S PATTERNS, PRIORITIES, AND PERCEIVED THREATS. Washington, D.C. / Caracas (June 19, 2020)—Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights […]
