Press Release Feb 22, 2019 Maduro Regime Must Refrain from Violence and Allow Humanitarian Aid (February 22, 2019) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) demands that Venezuelan dictatorship allow humanitarian aid to enter the country this weekend, and refrain from using any type…
Press Release Feb 7, 2019 HRF Chairman Garry Kasparov Recognizes Juan Guaidó as the Acting President of Venezuela The Standing Committee of the Free Russia Forum declares its support for the citizens of Venezuela, who are defying the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro.
Press Release Jan 23, 2019 Venezuela: HRF Welcomes International Recognition of Juan Guaidó as President NEW YORK (January 23, 2019) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes the recent statements by numerous heads of state officially recognizing Juan Guaidó, leader of the democratically-elected, opposition-controlled National Assembly, as interim president of Venezuela
Media May 18, 2018 Venezuela election: Maduro ‘ready for battle’ as voters vow to flee if he wins His country is plagued by hyperinflation, chronic shortages of food and medicine, soaring murder rates and one of the most severe migration crises in recent Latin American history.
Press Release Apr 2, 2018 HRF a la ONU: Danny Glover debe ser despojado de título de embajador de UNICEF
Press Release Mar 29, 2018 HRF to UN: Fire Danny Glover From UNICEF Ambassadorship NEW YORK (March 29, 2018) —The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover’s official visit to whitewash the crimes of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, and calls…
Publication Mar 23, 2018 Venezuela’s Maduro Uses Hunger as an Election Weapon (The Wall Street Journal) – Food is an enormously powerful weapon in a country where babies die of malnutrition, store shelves are often bare and three-quarters of the population
Publication Mar 1, 2018 Can Venezuela Be Saved? There’s a page in a book in a stack on the floor at the house of Leopoldo López that I think about sometimes. It’s a page that López revisits often;…
Publication Feb 8, 2018 ICC to open preliminary probes in Philippines, Venezuela Feb 8, 2018 (The Washington Post) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Thursday that she is opening preliminary probes into alleged crimes by police and security forces in the Philippines…
Press Release Feb 2, 2018 Venezuelan Political Police Arrests 85-Year-Old Intellectual NEW YORK (February 2, 2018) – The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the violent raid and arbitrary arrest of Venezuelan historian Enrique Aristeguieta Gramcko and calls on the Venezuelan dictatorship to release him immediately. Mr. Aristeguieta is an 85-year-old Venezuelan attorney
Media Feb 1, 2018 Venezuelans Are So Hungry ‘They Have to Loot to Eat’ (Time) – In the first half of January, there were at least 110 incidents of looting, more than five times than in the same period a year earlier, says the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict…
Media Jan 26, 2018 Maduro’s Court Excludes Opposition From Presidential Vote (News24) – Venezuela’s top court on Thursday delayed the process to re-enrol political parties by six months – a move that will exclude the main opposition coalition from the upcoming…
Press Release Jan 17, 2018 Venezuela: HRF condena ejecución extrajudicial de Oscar Pérez Nueva York (17 de enero de 2018) – Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condena el operativo destinado a ejecutar extrajudicialmente a Oscar Pérez, un exinspector de policía que se rebeló y levantó en armas en contra del régimen de Nicolás Maduro…
Press Release Jan 16, 2018 Venezuelan Government Executes Oscar Perez NEW YORK (January 16, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the extrajudicial killing of anti-regime uprising leader Oscar Perez by Venezuelan security forces. In the early hours of…
News Jan 10, 2017 HRF Pres. writes on Venezuelan corruption in New York Post Venezuela is no longer a country with a government, institutions and a civil society. It’s a geographic area terrorized by a criminal enterprise that pretends to govern, with a civil society made up of two sets of people: accomplices and victims.
News Jan 8, 2018 U.S. Sanctions Four More Venezuela Officials (The New York Times) – The U.S. government imposed sanctions Friday on four Venezuelan officials, accusing them of engaging in political repression and public corruption as part of President Nicolás Maduro’s government.
News Jan 5, 2018 Venezuelan criminals are using food to recruit children into gangs (Miami Herald) – Venezuelan gangs are no longer recruiting youths in some poor areas by offering them easy money to buy clothes or the latest cell phones. Instead, they are offering food baskets.
News Dec 15, 2017 Venezuela’s opposition wins EU’s prestigious human rights prize Venezuela’s opposition has won the EU’s prestigious Sakharov prize for freedom of thought and urged the world to keep a close eye on a forthcoming presidential election, where it aspires to end two decades of authoritarian rule.
News Nov 17, 2017 Venezuela opposition leader Ledezma flees to Colombia To learn more about human rights violations under Maduro’s authoritarian rule, watch HRF’s Oslo Freedom Forum talk by Antonietta Ledezma, daughter of Antonio Ledezma.
News Nov 14, 2017 Gobierno de Venezuela anuncia que controlará las redes sociales con gran severidad El Nuevo Herald (CARACAS) — El gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro anunció el lunes que el organismo regulador del sector de telecomunicaciones controlará las redes sociales con una severidad semejante a la que ha mostrado desde hace casi dos décadas con las estaciones de radio y televisión del país.
