The Organisation of American States has accused the Venezuelan government of crimes against humanity.
The panel of experts said the regime was involved in multiple murders and 12,000 cases of imprisonment and arbitrary detention, as well as torture, rape, political persecution and enforced disappearances.
"It is incomprehensible for the cases of torture to continue in the American continent," said Manuel Ventura Robles, the former judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.