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Venezuela
Country Overview
CIA World Factbook
Targeted Groups | Perpetrators | Alert Status | Genocide Stage(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
| Watch | Stage 6: Polarization, Stage 8: Persecution |
Details
Since 2014, economic collapse coupled with severe state-led repression has forced more than 5.4 million refugees to flee the country. The government of Nicolás Maduro continues to detain, torture, and kill civilians. State security forces and armed groups are committing rights abuses.
Page last updated:
10/4/2021
Resources
Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis has only worsened under COVID-19
Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate
Social Control and Abuses by Armed Groups in Colombia’s Arauca Province and Venezuela’s Apure State