José Miguel Domínguez Ramírez

1979-10-17

Male

Id Card, V-14444352, issuer: Venezuela

EU

Director of the Directorate of Strategic and Tactical Actions (DAET) since July 2022 and Assistant Director of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) since July 2023. Former Director of the Special Action Forces (Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales (FAES)). Former Chief Commissioner of the FAES in Táchira State. Additionally, José Miguel Domínguez Ramírez was the Director of Operations of the FAES, which fall within Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Police. Responsible for serious human rights violations and repressing of civil society and democratic opposition in Venezuela committed by FAES officials under his authority. The FAES are known for extrajudicial killings and their violent role in suppressing dissent from Maduro’s political opponents, the opposition, and protesters, which is why the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has demanded the dissolution of the FAES. Moreover, previously, Domínguez Ramírez was a member of the Venezuelan security team that opened fire on unarmed student protestors on 12 February 2014, resulting in the death of at least one of the students, Bassil Da Costa.

CH

art. 2 para. 1 (Financial sanctions) and art. 3 para. 1 (Travelban)

2021-03-19

CH

Ordinance of 28 March 2018 on measures against Venezuela (SR 946.231.178.5)

Switzerland country specific

Venezuela

Asset freeze, Travel ban

Switzerland imposes these sanctions under the Ordinance of 28 March 2018 on measures against Venezuela (SR 946.231.178.5). The measures follow the sanctions adopted by the European Union.