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Runrunes (English: Rumors) [1] is a news, opinion and analysis website dedicated to Venezuelan topics. The website was founded by Venezuelan investigative journalist Nelson Bocaranda . History
Bocaranda was born in Boconó, Venezuela on 18 April 1945 [1] as the oldest of five children of Alfredo Bocaranda González and Italia Sardi Consalvi de Bocaranda. [3] Of Spanish and Italian ancestry, Bocaranda's grandfather was a storekeeper and his father was a pharmacist. [3]
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 ...
Leiver Padilla Mendoza, a dual Colombian-Venezuelan citizen, was captured by Colombian police in November 2014 and extradited to Venezuela in 2015 to face trial for the murders of Serra and Herrera. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] In June 2015, Julio Cesar Velez, former députy in the Colombian city of Cúcuta and a member of Social Party of National Unity was ...
In the second hearing of the Organization of American States to analyze possible crimes against humanity in Venezuela, Major General Hebert García Plaza described Operation Tun Tun as an operation normally carried out at night, where a Bolivarian Intelligence Service commission visits the person and takes them away, possibly without an arrest warrant or issued by a Public Ministry prosecutor.
Ronna Rísquez is a Venezuelan investigative journalist. Rísquez has worked for El Nacional and Runrunes media, in addition to being a finalist for the Gabo Journalism Award [] in 2016 and participating in the Panama Papers investigation team.
Torture in Venezuela has been a consistent phenomenon throughout its history. Various dictatorships from the Spanish colonial era into the twentieth century utilized torture against common criminals and political opponents.
An investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to analyze possible crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela was opened in 2021. [1] A preliminary examination was initially opened in 2006, and closed after concluding that the requirements to start an investigation had not been met. [2]