The UN accuses Maduro of causing “one of the worst human rights crises in recent history.”

The UN mission who investigates the situation Venezuela has accused the government of Nicolás Maduro of plunging the country into crisis a ‘climate of fear’which he described as “one of the crisis of human rights more serious of recent history”.

The body created by the Human Rights Council to monitor and document violations of fundamental rights in the Latin American country presented its latest report at a press conference on Tuesday, in which it confirmed that abuses have increased since the July 28 presidential election, “silencing all criticism and doubt” that President Nicolás Maduro was the winner.

In the period prior to those electionsat least between December 2023 and March 2024 48 People were arrested for alleged plots against the government and in July this year alone more than 120 people were detained as part of the opposition’s election campaign.

After the electionsthe authorities carried out more than 2200 arrests within a few weeks, which the UN said confirmed that the entire judicial system, headed by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), “is clearly subordinate to the interests of the executive and serves as a key instrument in its plan to suppress all forms of political and social opposition,” the report said.

The mission also documented 25 dead During the protests, the majority of young people were under 30 years old.

The president of the fact-finding mission, Marta Baliñas, has denounced “an intensification of the repressive apparatus”, despite “several” calls from Venezuela and also from the international community.