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When the Venezuelan War of Independence started, the Spanish enlisted the Llaneros, playing on their dislike of the criollos of the independence movement. During this time, José Tomás Boves led an army of llaneros which routinely killed white Venezuelans. After several more years of war, the country achieved independence from Spain in 1821. [1]
The U.S. State Department reissued a "do not travel" advisory last September warning U.S. citizens not to travel to Venezuela "due to the high risk of wrongful detentions, terrorism, kidnapping ...
The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
An "objective, fair observer" can see that Venezuela's government is oppressive, said Kennedy. After Venezuela's July 2024 presidential election, the report submitted to the Human Rights Council ...
In Venezuela, like other South American countries, economic inequality often breaks along ethnic and racial lines. [17] A 2013 Swedish academic study stated that Venezuela was the most racist country in the Americas, [17] followed by the Dominican Republic. [17]
“People who are in the United States who can’t or don’t appeal their cases, and do not request Temporary Protected Status, are the people who have no protections,” said De La Vega. “They ...
In October 2018, a Venezuelan was lynched in Ciudad Bolívar, after being connected to the kidnapping of children through fake WhatsApp chains. At least 200 citizens participated in the lynching using stones, sticks and machetes. After this, two Venezuelans were about to be lynched in the same place and two other migrants were beaten in ...
More than 330,000 Venezuelans crossed the U.S. border last year, according to Customs and Border Protection data, and Venezuela, like Cuba, China and a handful of other countries, doesn’t ...