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In 2010, leader of the Spanish separatist group ETA Iñaki de Juana Chaos fled to Venezuela from Northern Ireland in 2010 while appealing an extradition order in Spain. By 2015, he lived and ran a liquor store Chichiriviche. [20] [21] The same year at least two other ETA leaders resided in Venezuela: Arturo Cubillas and Xabier Arruti Imaz. [21 ...
A report produced between the non-governmental organizations Foro Penal and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights documented 200 cases of enforced disappearances in Venezuela in 2018 and 524 cases in 2019, a larger number attributed to an increase in protests in the country. The analysis concluded that the average disappearance lasted five days ...
Venezuela's murder rate decreased from 92 per 100,000 in 2016 to 81.4 in 2018, according to the Venezuelan Violence Observatory (OVV), due in part to criminals joining millions of other Venezuelans in fleeing the country. [15] The murder rate declined even further to 60.3 in 2019. [16]
Name Date Location Deaths Notes Night of the Machetes: 1913 Amazonas state 65-400 [1] [2]: El Corozo massacre [3] [4]: 1942, 18 February El Corozo village, Trujillo state 12 50-year-old farmer Gregorio Cáceres kills eleven people and seriously injured four others with an ax and a knife in El Corozo, a village in Trujillo, in addition to killing several animals and then escaping in the jungle ...
On 22 February 2019, the Venezuelan Army sent troops to the Brazilian border, driving through Kumarakapay, despite the fact the tribe held autonomy over the town. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Local indigenous protesters and leaders in Kumarakapay attempted to halt advancing personnel carriers by building a road blockade, managing to detain several soldiers.
A light map of Venezuela on the night of 7 March 2019 and the night of 8 March 2019. [a]Nationwide recurring electrical blackouts in Venezuela began in March 2019. Experts and state-run Corpoelec (Corporación Eléctrica Nacional) sources attribute the electricity shortages to lack of maintenance and to a lack of technical expertise in the country resulting from a brain drain.
Michelle Bachelet in 2020.. The Bachelet report is the name given from the press to reports presented between 2019 and 2022 by then-United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on the situation of the human rights in Venezuela, which was endorsed later by the United Nations Human Rights Council and opened the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela.
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