Venezuela

1981-03-25

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Head (Director) of the Special Affairs Division (DAE) of the Directorate-General of Military Counterintelligence (Dirección General de Contrainteligencia Militar (DGCIM)). Promoted to Colonel in July 2020. There are reasonable grounds to suspect that he is responsible for serious human rights violations, including torture, excessive use of force causing death and injury and the ill-treatment of detainees in DGCIM facilities committed by himself and officials under his command. There are also, reasonable grounds to suspect he is involved in the repression of civil society by members of DGCIM under his command, as well as directly involved in such repression. In particular, he is linked to the death of Captain Acosta.

The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

2020-12-31

UK

The Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

UK country specific

Venezuela

Asset freeze and making available provisions, Trade sanctions, Travel bans

• The Regulations impose financial sanctions through a targeted asset freeze on designated persons and prohibitions on making funds or economic resources available. This involves the freezing of funds and economic resources (non-monetary assets, such as property or vehicles) of designated persons and ensuring that funds and economic resources are not made available to or for the benefit of designated persons, either directly or indirectly. • The effect of the Regulations is to impose a travel ban on persons who are designated by the Secretary of State for the purposes of being made subject to immigration sanctions under the Sanctions Act. • Trade sanctions.

The Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 came fully into force on 31 December 2020. They are intended to ensure that certain financial, trade and immigration sanctions relating to Venezuela continue to operate effectively. You should also review the Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 and the Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 to find out any amendments made to the Regulations. This sanctions regime is aimed at encouraging the government of Venezuela to respect democratic principles, to comply with international human rights law and to respect human rights. These regulations have replaced, with substantially the same effect, relevant existing EU legislation and related UK regulations.

Licensing and exception provisions are contained in Part 6 of the Regulations.