Commentary
The Venezuelan Walkers
Published in
Foreign Policy In Focus
Tamara Taraciuk Broner
Tamara Taraciuk Broner joined Human Rights Watch as a fellow in September 2005. After a year, she became HRW’s Mexico researcher (2006-2009), and is currently a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division, covering several countries in the region. She previously was a junior scholar at the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she coordinated a project on citizen security in Latin America, and worked at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS). Taraciuk was born in Venezuela, and grew up in Argentina, where she studied law at Torcuato Di Tella University. She holds a post-graduate diploma on human rights and transitional justice from the University of Chile, and a Master’s degree in Law (LLM) from Columbia Law School.
Articles Authored
Reports Authored
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Crackdown on Dissent
Brutality, Torture, and Political Persecution in Venezuela
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Implicating Humala
Evidence of Atrocities and Cover-Up of Abuses Committed during Peru’s Armed Conflict
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Venezuela’s Humanitarian Crisis
Severe Medical and Food Shortages, Inadequate and Repressive Government Response
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Unchecked Power
Police and Military Raids in Low-Income and Immigrant Communities in Venezuela
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Punished for Protesting
Rights Violations in Venezuela’s Streets, Detention Centers, and Justice System
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Tightening the Grip
Concentration and Abuse of Power in Chávez's Venezuela
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After the Coup
Ongoing Violence, Intimidation, and Impunity in Honduras
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Uniform Impunity
Mexico's Misuse of Military Justice to Prosecute Abuses in Counternarcotics and Public Security Operations
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A Decade Under Chávez
Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela
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Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission
A Critical Assessment
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Mexico: Lost in Transition
Bold Ambitions, Limited Results for Human Rights Under Fox