Venezuela

Katarina Hall | 10.16.2024 2:35 PM

The United Nations (U.N.) has accused Nicolás Maduro's Venezuelan government of committing "gross human rights violations" in the wake of July's disputed presidential election. According to a report released Tuesday, the regime's security forces were responsible for killings, forced disappearances, and physical, psychological, and sexual torture.

"The reactivation of the most violent mechanisms of the State's repressive apparatus led to serious human rights violations and crimes, in what constituted one of the country's most acute crises in recent years," the U.N.'s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission stated in its 161-page........

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