The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Venezuela (numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Night of the Machetes | 1913 | Amazonas state | 65-400[1] [2] | ||
| El Corozo massacre[3] [4] | 1942, 18 February | El Corozo village, Trujillo state | 12 | 50-year-old farmer Gregorio Cáceres kills eleven people and seriously injured four others with an ax and a knife in El Corozo, a village in Trujillo, in addition to killing several animals and then escaping in the jungle, but ended up being tracked down and shot dead by police | |
| Cantaura massacre | 1982, 4 October | Cantaura, Anzoátegui state | 23 | Guerilla fighters killed. | |
| Yumare massacre | 1986, 8 May | Yaracuy state | 9 | Massacre of members of the subversive group Punto Cero by the DISIP. | |
| Massacre of El Amparo | 1988, 29 October | El Amparo, Apure state | 14 | Massacre of fishermen near the village of El Amparo. | |
| Caracazo[5] [6] [7] [8] | 1989, February–March | Venezuela | 277–5,000[9] [10] | A week of unrest in response to controversial economic liberalization policies proposed Carlos Andrés Pérez that led him to implement Plan Ávila | |
| Retén de Catia massacre | 1992, 27 November | , Caracas | 63–200+[11] | Massacre by the National Guard and the Metropolitan Police of prison inmates during the second 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt[12] [13] | |
| 1994 Sabaneta fire | 1994, 3 January | Maracaibo, Zulia | 108 | least 108 inmates died in a riot followed by Fire[14] | |
| 1995, 25 February | Frontier with the Vichada Department, Colombia | 8 | Venezuelan soldiers in a border garrison were killed by an ELN guerrillas commanded by a Venezuelan National Guard deserter.[15] [16] [17] | ||
| 1995, 23 June | Caracas | 5 | Hostage crisis. Eight wounded.[18] | ||
| La Planta massacre | 1996, 22 October | Caracas | 29[19] [20] | at least 29 inmates were burned to death in La Planta prison in Caracas, after members of the Guardia Nacional (GN), locked them into an overcrowded cell and threw tear-gas canisters into it, which set it on fire.[21] [22] [23] | |
| Llaguno Overpass events (El Silencio massacre) | 2002, 11 April | Caracas | 19 | Shootout between the Metropolitan Police and pro-government gunmen during an opposition march to the presidential Miraflores Palace. | |
| 2005, 27 November | Caracas | 3 | College students killed by police officers. Three wounded.[24] [25] [26] [27] | ||
| 2009, 22 September | El Valle Parish, Caracas | 10 | Officers from the now defunct (PM) murdered ten young women identified as alleged members of a criminal gang that operated in different areas of the parish.[28] | ||
| Los Maniceros massacre | 2009, October | La Tala, Táchira state | 11 | Kidnapping of a Colombian amateur association football team. | |
| Uribana prison riot | 2013, 25 January | Barquisimeto, Lara state | 61 | Prison riot. One hundred and twenty wounded. | |
| Yare prison riot | 2012, 20 August | Yare I prison complex, Miranda state | 25 | Armed prisoners in the Yare I prison complex, an overcrowded prison in Miranda state near Caracas, rioted. A shootout between two groups resulted in the deaths of 25 people, one of them a visitor | |
| 2013, 4 July | Coro, Falcón state | 2 | Shooting of the National Guard of a woman and her daughters. The mother and one of the daughters were killed, while the two remaining daughters were helped shortly afterwards.[29] [30] [31] [32] | ||
| 2013, 16 September | Sabaneta, Zulia state | 16 | Gang violence in prison. Forty eight wounded.[33] [34] | ||
| Altagracia massacre | 2014, 10 November | , Guárico state | 11 | Ambush by El Picure gang[35] [36] | |
| 2016 Tumeremo massacre | 2016, 8 March | Tumeremo, Bolívar state | 4 | Disappearance of twenty eight miners. Twenty four miners remain missing. | |
| 2016, 21 March | Caracas | 10 | Gang violence. Fourteen wounded.[37] [38] | ||
| 2016, Late | Barlovento, Miranda state | 12 | Disappearance by a operative. On 25 November common graves were found in the area by the CICPC.[39] [40] [41] | ||
| 2016, 11 November | Cariaco, Sucre state | 9 | Massacre of fishermen. 3 wounded.[42] | ||
| El Junquito massacre | 2018, 15 January | El Junquito | 10 | Rebel leader Óscar Alberto Pérez, six rebels and three officials killed. | |
| August 2018 Tumeremo massacre[43] [44] [45] | 2018, 26 August | Tumeremo, Bolívar state | 12+ | ||
| 2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire | 2018, 28 March | Valencia, Carabobo | 69 | a fire broke out during a prison riot in the cells at the Carabobo state police headquarters in Valencia, The fire killed at least 69 people and injured scores of others.[46] | |
| October 2018 Tumeremo massacre | 2018, 14–16 October | Tumeremo, Bolívar state | 7+ | ||
| Amazonas ambush | 2018, November 4 | Amazonas (Venezuelan state) | 3 | 3 Venezuelan border guards were killed and 10 were wounded in a suspected ELN rebel attack | |
| Acarigua prison riot | 2019, 24 May | Acarigua, Portuguesa | 29 | At least 29 prisoners are killed during a prison riot in Acarigua | |
| Kumarakapay massacre | 2019, 22 February | San Francisco de Yuruaní, Bolívar (state) | 11-25 | Massacre of Pemon civilians by the Venezuelan Army. Part of the Pemon conflict. | |
| Guanare prison riot | 2020, 1 May | Guanare, Portuguesa state | 47 | A riot and attempted escape attempt leaves 47 dead and 75 injured in the Centro Penitenciario de los Llanos in Guanare | |
| La Vega raid | 2021, 8 January | Caracas | 23 | Police raid to take control of La Vega Parish, which was controlled by the El Loco gang. |