Tag: SEBIN

• Thursday, January 8th 2026 - 23:31 UTC

  Venezuela releases political prisoners in first major gesture since Maduro’s capture

  

  Venezuela has begun releasing a “significant number” of political prisoners, including Venezuelan citizens and foreign nationals, in what authorities described as a unilateral gesture to help consolidate peace and peaceful coexistence in the country. The announcement comes less than a week after former president Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces and transported to New York to face federal charges.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 09:29 UTC

  Maduro makes major military brass reshuffle

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros announced Monday that he was keeping Vladimir Padrino López as Defense Minister but was otherwise making a major reshuffle within the Bolivarian Armed Forces' brass, including the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) and the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin). Padrino López has been Defense Minister since October 2014.

• Thursday, September 17th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  UN report slams Venezuela government for methodical extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances and torture

  

  The Venezuelan government was accused of committing crimes against humanity in a report published on Wednesday by a United Nations-backed fact-finding mission.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  Venezuelan president Guaidó meets Johnson in London; in Caracas his office was raided by Maduro's secret service agents

  

  Venezuelan secret service agents have raided the offices of opposition leader Juan Guaidó while he is on a visit to the UK. Footage showed hooded and armed officers from the Sebin service outside the building in Caracas.

• Monday, July 8th 2019 - 10:15 UTC

  Power outage hits Venezuela's largest refinery complex

  

  Venezuela's largest refinery complex has been hit by a power outage, at a time of acute fuel shortages in parts of the crisis-torn oil producer, an opposition lawmaker said on Sunday.

• Wednesday, May 15th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Venezuelan forces impede opposition lawmakers from entering parliament

  

  Venezuelan security forces prevented opposition lawmakers from entering the parliament building for a session on Tuesday, a week after the top court stripped several lawmakers of their immunity amid a political crisis in the South American country.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Maduro's police arrest the Venezuelan Parliament vice president after the failed military uprising

  

  The intelligence of Nicolás Maduro's regime detained Edgar Zambrano, vice president of the National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela, on Wednesday, after having supported the military uprising on April 30 against the authoritarian mandatory in the framework of the final phase of Operation Freedom, led by Parliament’s president, Juan Guaidó.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 19:31 UTC

  Bachelet “concerned” about the arrest of Venezuelan journalist and activist Luis Carlos Díaz

  

  Luis Carlos Diaz, a Venezuelan journalist who is an expert in networks and critical of the Nicolás Maduro regime, was arrested on Monday, without capture order, by the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) after leaving his radio program, denounced his wife and colleague Naky Soto. On Tuesday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, referred to the arrest and asked the authorities for “urgent access” for her technical mission in Venezuela to Díaz.

• Thursday, January 31st 2019 - 16:42 UTC

  Venezuela: Journalists arrested and deported complied with accreditations

  

  The National Union of Workers of the Press (SNTP) of Venezuela reported that reporters from the Spanish international agency EFE who were detained by the National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) in Caracas will be deported despite fulfilling the necessary papers to carry out his journalistic work.

• Monday, January 14th 2019 - 18:06 UTC

  Uruguay: “Deep concern” about detention of the Venezuelan Parliament president

  

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed on Monday, through a statement, its “deep concern” regarding the “serious institutional crisis” and the “acts of intimidation” that led to the arrest and subsequent release of the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó , by officials of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin).