# Cabello identified rights defenders after a Human Rights Watch meeting

Date: 2014

During Con El Mazo Dando, Cabello named Venezuelan human-rights defenders associated with a December meeting at Human Rights Watch in New York and characterized their activity as linked to destabilization. A UN Special Procedures communication and Front Line Defenders both documented the episode and the broader intimidation concern. [SP Comm Reports](https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=18673\&utm_source=chatgpt.com)

## Drivers

- Cabello PSUV strongman and interior repression: https://factrail.ai/drivers/cabello-psuv-strongman

## Sources

- https://frontlinedefenders.org/es/case/case-history-provea
- https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=18673

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cabello-defenders-hrw-meeting-disclosure-2014