The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela highlighted that 10 of the 15 officials heading the new security force DAET used to be part of the former FAES, which perpetuates the chain of command of extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions […]
Venezuela has the highest police lethality rate in Latin America and, perhaps, the world. Between January 2016 and October 2019, 19,000 cases of deaths at the hands of the Police were registered, according to unofficial data from the Ministry of […]
The multidimensional crisis afflicting Venezuela is marked by the deterioration of democratic institutions, abuse as part of a systematic practice by the State security forces, the exercise of patterns of persecution and criminalization against political dissent, the constant worsening of […]
In the framework of so-called security operations, the Venezuelan government has carried out approximately seven Operaciones Trueno (Thunder Operations) with the participation of different armed agencies of the State, both civil and military, and the aim, according to the authorities, of dismantling […]
For the third consecutive time, private media and Venezuelan Non-Governmental Organizations took a leading role in the documentation, verification and dissemination of cases of human rights violations that served as input for the conclusions of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on […]
A few weeks ago we published our most recent investigation El FAES no depende de nadie. La muerte como divisa (FAES depends on no one. Death as a motto), a reflection on the phenomenon of the Special Action Forces of […]
“You keep waiting for a good morning or good night message, you keep waiting for all those birthdays when you don’t know if it is one year more or one less.” This is how Estrella describes the months that followed […]
The Venezuelan human rights documentation initiative Lupa Por la Vida is a joint project of PROVEA and the Gumilla Center that monitors the violation of the right to life in Venezuela with an emphasis on the commission of extrajudicial executions […]
In a ruling dated June 3, 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights established that the murder of two people by the police force of the state of Falcón occurred in a context of police violence, which affects to a […]
From January to June 2021, the Commission for Human Rights of the State of Zulia (Codhez) documented several acts of violence involving security officials of the Venezuelan State that led to the presumably unlawful death of 158. In the same […]
