A Mother’s 16-Month Search for a Son the State Had Already Buried
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
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In Memory of Carmen Navas
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.
Powerful Mothers Fight Extrajudicial Executions in Venezuela
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
Meet the Caracas Eight
The relatives of these minors detained in electoral context, mostly women, stay around the detention center every day asking for their release
The Voice of a Victim
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 Pernalete Family: Life Without Juan Pablo
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 Tudares Case and the Regime’s New Constraints
The son-in-law of Edmundo González was released after his wife denounced coercion from intermediaries presumably acting on the regime’s behalf
UN Fact Finding Mission Underscores State Violence Against Women in Venezuela
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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