May 6, 2021
Since late March, battle-tested Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) combatants have defied Venezuela and knocked its military on its heels. There are two important lessons to draw from these recent armed clashes between FARC fighters and Venezuelan armed forces on the border with Colombia. One lesson is for the Maduro regime and the other for those who have expressed interest in replacing it.
Ironically, both Venezuelan parties are prone to underestimating the FARC, a lesson that was hard learned on the Colombian side of the border. The armed encounters have served as an abrupt wake-up call for Nicolás Maduro and his supporters. Violent clashes have continued into a second month, underscoring that the regime was caught off-balance.
Maduro s forces committed atrocities on the border with Colombia, denounces HRW
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Venezuela: UN Fact-Finding Mission Underscores Grave and Persistent Rights Abuses
The mission’s rigorous documentation clearly demonstrates sustained and severe human rights abuses in Venezuela, as well as impunity for the perpetrators.
In response to the UN Fact Finding Mission’s (FFM) oral update on the human rights situation in Venezuela before the UN Human Rights Council, Freedom House issued the following statement:
“Freedom House commends the FFM’s oral update to its report published in September 2020, which reaffirms that the human rights violations occurring in Venezuela could amount to crimes against humanity. The FFM’s rigorous documentation counters the regime’s false narrative of cooperation with the United Nations, clearly demonstrates sustained and severe human rights abuses, and highlights the scarcity of official investigations into those abuses or consequences for perpetrators,” said Gerardo Berthin, director for Latin America and Caribbean programs