Venezuela crisis tracker
What is happening in Venezuela?
Venezuela crisis: US strikes, Maduro's capture, the election push, key actors, a sourced timeline, what to watch, and monthly conflict events and fatalities.
This tracker reports the latest available monthly humanitarian conflict summary for Venezuela. It is a country-level pulse, not a comprehensive incident ledger, a count of deaths from US strikes on boats at sea, or a forecast.
Latest maintained month
Country conflict pulse
Metrics are country-level records for the latest available HAPI/HDX reference month. Missing countries are unavailable, not zero. A combined total is withheld when reference periods differ.
Current monthly conflict metrics load after page enhancement. The tracker scope below remains the dated crawlable reference.
- Venezuela
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Background
Venezuela's governing movement has held power since Hugo Chávez took office in 1999, and Nicolás Maduro succeeded him in 2013. His 2018 re-election was widely seen as a sham because main opposition parties were barred. In 2024 electoral authorities declared him the winner, although the opposition gathered evidence that he lost by more than two to one, AP reported, and more than 2,000 people were arrested in the protests that followed. By September 2025 Washington had doubled its bounty for Maduro to $50 million and sent warships to the Caribbean, and on 2 September it struck a boat it said had left Venezuela carrying drugs, killing 11 people. Sources: PBS NewsHour, wlrn.org, dawn.com.
By late October 2025 the US campaign against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific had killed at least 61 people, and UN human rights chief Volker Türk said the strikes violated international human rights law. On 3 January 2026 US forces struck targets in Caracas and seized Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, flying them to New York to face narco-terrorism charges. OCHA says 7.9 million people in Venezuela need humanitarian aid, and an estimated 6.87 million Venezuelans lived elsewhere in the region in 2025. Twin earthquakes on 24 June 2026 killed 6,438 people, according to an official toll in August. Sources: PBS NewsHour (1, 2), humanitarianaction.info (1, 2), english.adnkronos.com.
In early November 2026 Venezuela is run by interim President Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro's former deputy, who works closely with Washington, while Maduro awaits trial in New York and pleaded not guilty to new torture conspiracy charges on 15 October. On 22 October thousands joined the first nationwide opposition protest in nearly two years demanding elections; no date has been set. María Corina Machado returned on 25 October and called for a presidential vote in 2027. On 2 November the US reaffirmed its three-phase plan ending in democratic transition. In Apure, an army attack on an ELN camp on 30 October killed at least 19 people, AFP reported. Sources: Al Jazeera (1, 2, 3), thestar.com.my, ewn.co.za.
Key actors
Timeline
What to watch
Background, actors, timeline and watch list last reviewed against the linked sources. They are context for the monthly figures above, not part of the HAPI/HDX dataset.
Country readings
Venezuela has a Country Instability Index reading of 60 (Elevated). Instability is a live 0-100 stress score; resilience is a structural 0-100 index ranked across countries. Both describe each country as a whole, not this crisis alone, and a country without a reading reflects index coverage, not a statement about risk.
| Country | Instability (CII) | CII movement | Resilience score | Resilience rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venezuela | 60 (Elevated) | Unchanged | Not ranked | — |
Sources: Country Instability Index published pulse and the country resilience index snapshot used on each country page.
Coverage boundary
Venezuela (VE). Events outside this list are not included in the live totals on this page.
Live data
How to read this tracker
Use these monthly country summaries as a bounded pulse, then inspect the dashboard for event-level context, map layers, and other independent signals. The figures are not forecasts and should not be interpreted as a complete casualty or incident ledger. SUZU Monitor's forecasts are graded separately, and that record is published on the forecast accuracy scorecard.
Questions about the Venezuela crisis
What is happening in Venezuela?
In early November 2026 Venezuela is run by interim President Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro's former deputy, who works closely with Washington, while Maduro awaits trial in New York and pleaded not guilty to new torture conspiracy charges on 15 October. On 22 October thousands joined the first nationwide opposition protest in nearly two years demanding elections; no date has been set. María Corina Machado returned on 25 October and called for a presidential vote in 2027. On 2 November the US reaffirmed its three-phase plan ending in democratic transition. In Apure, an army attack on an ELN camp on 30 October killed at least 19 people, AFP reported. Last reviewed November 5, 2026 against the linked sources.
Which countries does the Venezuela crisis tracker cover?
Venezuela. Events outside this country are not included in the totals on this page.
Download: tracker.json. Scope source: SUZU Monitor crisis registry. Maintained metrics: HAPI/HDX humanitarian conflict summaries from the UN OCHA Humanitarian API.
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