The three former police officers released last night after 23 years are the most eloquent example of how chavismo imprisons human beings to sustain a myth
Murder, torture and political cruelty have been a constant force in our history, but these have intensified in the past three decades
US-backed authorities remain far from dismantling the control mechanisms that pushed Venezuela into crisis
The 83-year-old mother who spent the last 16 months searching for her son passed away on Sunday, 10 days after authorities claimed Víctor Hugo Quero Navas died in custody in July 2025. We honor Navas, and the many relatives of victims like her, whose courage and dignity have elevated the Venezuelan human rights struggle.
While his mother searched alone, complicity across Venezuela’s security forces and judicial system concealed the fate of political prisoner Víctor Quero for 16 months
This grieving group of women organized to force the Venezuelan State to answer for the extrajudicial executions of their sons, husbands, and brothers—and, hopefully, put a stop to this horrific practice
The relatives of these minors detained in electoral context, mostly women, stay around the detention center every day asking for their release
Six years ago, Lissette’s father died at El Helicoide prison. Her family is amongst those directly affected by political violence—and she refuses to believe in revenge
The story of the student killed by the National Guard in 2017, and his family, may be one among hundreds, but it illustrates the magnitude of the damage caused by the dictatorship’s brutality, and how direly reparations are needed
The son-in-law of Edmundo González was released after his wife denounced coercion from intermediaries presumably acting on the regime’s behalf
What’s the United Nations independent report saying on torture and denigrating treatment of female dissidents in Venezuela? Something not easy to read, but necessary to know
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A string of grim cases and troubling “coincidences” has put Maduro’s extravagant inquisitor in the hot seat
The fall of the Maduro global business operator shows how the regime changed under the pressure of sanctions, isolation, and survival
Energy expert Luisa Palacios says recovering our grid requires guarantees, hefty long-term investment and a redefined role for private companies
Mines and oilfields are reopening. The communities around them are not what foreign companies remember
After lots of pressure and little debate, an insufficient Amnesty Law was approved unanimously by Delcy's National Assembly
