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  • Venezuela: Brutal Crackdown Since Elections Killings, Enforced Disappearances, Arbitrary Detention of Critics

    01/03/2026 9:34:45 PM PST · by NoLibZone · 4 replies
    Human rights watch ^ | April 30,2025 | Human rights watch
    Venezuelan authorities and pro-government armed groups have committed widespread abuses since the July 28, 2024 presidential elections that officials said Nicolás Maduro had won, despite substantial evidence to the contrary. The Venezuelan government has killed, tortured, detained, and forcefully disappeared people seeking democratic change and many others have fled the country. Governments should support accountability efforts for grave human rights violations in Venezuela, call on Venezuelan authorities to release people arbitrarily detained, disclose the whereabouts of those subjected to enforced disappearances, and expand access to international protection for Venezuelans fleeing repression. (Washington, DC) – Venezuelan authorities and pro-government armed groups...
  • Maduro’s Cult of Personality and Repression Defined Venezuela’s Lost Decade

    01/04/2026 3:56:51 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    Tico Times ^ | January 4, 2026
    Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, who has been seized by US special forces after more than a decade in power, ruled with an iron fist while seeking to portray himself as a humble man of the people. During months in the crosshairs of US President Donald Trump, who accused him of being a drug trafficker, the 63-year-old former bus driver deflected pressure by dancing to techno music at near-daily rallies, always broadcast live, as he chanted the mantra “No war, yes peace!” — in English. But for many Venezuelans, Maduro was no kindly pacifist. Seven million compatriots emigrated on his watch amid...