Border Area Abuses News Today

We are writing to respectfully urge that, in light of the Colombian government’s reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the Nicolás Maduro government, your government maintains a strong focus on helping to address the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accuses Venezuela’s security forces of carrying out operations with the Colombian guerrilla group National Liberation Army (ELN), and of causing “a dramatic increase in violence in the first months of 2022” in the border departments of Arauca, in Colombia, and Apure, in Venezuela. The report Colombia/Venezuela: Border Area Abuses by Armed Groups was published on March 28.