Photo Exhibit Premieres at Organization for American States

VOC exhibit featured 50 photos by award-winning Venezuelan photographers, laying bare the horrors of Nicolás Maduro's socialist regime.

On July 8, in partnership with the Organization of American States (OAS) and the arts-based human rights organization Un Mundo Sin Mordaza, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) co-hosted an invitation-only photography exhibit called Victims of Venezuela’s Dictatorship at the OAS Main Building in Washington, D.C.

The exhibit exposed the human cost of socialism in Venezuela for top policymakers and leaders of the human rights community. It featured 50 photos by award-winning Venezuelan photographers, laying bare the horrors of Nicolás Maduro’s regime, including food shortages, malnutrition, the migration crisis, torture of dissidents, and police brutality against protesters. Speakers were OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro, Venezuelan Special Representative to the OAS Amb. Gustavo Tarre, and VOC Executive Director Marion Smith.

A few days earlier, on June 24-28, the exhibit was displayed in Latin America as part of the 49th regular session of the OAS General Assembly at the Plaza Mayor Convention and Exhibition Center in Medellín, Colombia. More than 2,000 people saw the exhibit which was widely covered in the international media, including EFE, Telemundo, La Vanguardia, El Nacional, and Venezuela Al Día.