COI Query Response - Venezuela: Treatment of Returnees (26 May 2026)

Country: Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Source: European Union Agency for Asylum Please refer to the attached file. Treatment of returnees 1. Background information (including return trends) 1.1.Background information Sources indicate that around eight million Venezuelans1 have fled the country since President Maduro took power in 2013, as the country experienced ‘economic mayhem, hyperinflation, hunger and increasingly authoritarian rule’.2 According to the United Nations High Commissioner