News About Venezuela
Juan Pedro Lares: The freed prisoner that never was
By Krizna Gomez |
Juan Pedro Lares, a 24-year old Colombian-Venezuelan young man, who was abducted by a hundred civilian-dressed members of the Venezuelan Intelligence, the National Guard, the police, and armed civilian groups from his family’s home in July of last year was finally set free . But a feeling of injustice still lingers.
Dejusticia intervenes in defense of Venezuelan migrants’ right to health
By Lucía Ramírez Bolívar |
The Constitutional Court invited Dejusticia to present their legal opinion on two cases concerning the right to health of people coming from Venezuela.
The Yukpas: The Indigenous community who migrated to Colombia in search of rice
By Carolina Gutiérrez, Angélica María Cuevas Guarnizo |
One of Colombia’s greatest challenges as it relates to Venezuela’s migration crisis is the ethnic group who came from the neighboring country, having fled the crisis and asking to be recognized as binational citizens. They are some 300 people who decry the death of two of their children, the disappearances of some of their members, and the consistent threats they face.
The collective despair of Venezuelans passing through Cúcuta
By Angélica María Cuevas Guarnizo |
In response to the presidential elections, a repeated phrase is heard among those crossing the Simon Bolivar bridge to take refuge in other countries across South America: “Only God can save Venezuela."
Venezuela in a spiral
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
El Helicoide gets its name from the geometric shape of the building that houses the prison, which resembles a spiral. The crisis in the prison and the elections this Sunday could worsen the spiral of Maduro’s regime towards arbitrariness.
Dejusticia launches groundbreaking playbook for the human rights field against populism
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Krizna Gomez |
At the Defenders’ Days, during the international conference of human rights defenders organized by Civil Rights Defenders in Sweden, Dejusticia has launched the edited volume Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights Actors.
In Venezuela, cancer patients are dying without access to morphine
By Isabel Pereira Arana, Lucía Ramírez Bolívar |
The shortage of medicine in Venezuela has generated a humanitarian crisis that impacts thousands of patients. According to approximated statistics, only 10% of patients with terminal and/or chronic illnesses that require medication like morphine actually enjoy access to such. They face a dilemma of having to choose between hunger and pain.
#VenezuelaBienvenida
By Irina Alejandra Junieles Acosta |
Citizen-led initiatives like #VenezuelaBienvenida (#VenezuelaIsWelcome in English) are reassuring, which calls on the country to get involved in the crisis on the side of human rights, to open channels of conversation, while promoting research and action to avoid the festering social rejection of Venezuelans.
Venezuelan migration and political opportunism
By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019) |
Many Colombians are welcoming the Venezuelan neighbors who are crossing the border in solidarity. However, some campaign politicians take advantage of the situation to win votes in the upcoming elections.
