According to the third report from the Monitor of Use of Lethal Force in Latin America and the Caribbean (MFL), published on April 16, 21 to 25.3 percent of all violent deaths in Venezuela between 2020 and 2022 happened at […]
The Human Rights Commission of the State of Zulia (Codhez) presented its 2022 Annual Report on the general situation of human rights in the Zulia region, a study that compiles the multiple failures of the Venezuelan State in the region, […]
The most recent report by the Venezuelan Lethal Force Monitor revealed that the Venezuelan State is responsible for a third of all homicides registered in the country since 2016. Keymer Ávila, director of the organization, pointed out that the monitor […]
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 […]
A group of researchers and civil society organizations recently announced the launching of the website of the Monitor of the Use of Lethal Force in Venezuela (MUFLVEN), the result of an interdisciplinary effort to provide detailed information, research and analysis […]
The Special Action Forces (FAES) of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) became a machine of death. Its victims mainly young people from popular sectors. Its main modality is to carry out raids without a court order, arrest the allegedly criminal person and […]
The use of lethal force by State agents is a priority for several countries in the region. The Lethal Force Monitor is an initiative that emerged in 2018 and currently brings together six universities and four research centers from eight […]
The following lines are a synthesis of the main findings of a research on the use and abuse of lethal force in Venezuela, conducted in the framework of the second edition of the Lethal Force Monitor, a regional project consisting […]
Even though the number of violent deaths has decreased in recent years, Venezuela remains the most violent country in Latin America In an interview with Radio Fe y Alegría Noticias, the director of the Venezuelan Observatory on Violence (OVV), Roberto […]
The mega-gangs of Caracas are not shy to display their power, as evidenced during the wave of violence that they generated on July 7, 8, and 9 in the surroundings of Cota 905, where they recklessly challenged the force of […]
