# List of massacres in Venezuela

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 | |
| El Corozo massacre | 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 | 1989, February–March | Venezuela | 277–5,000 | 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 | Retén de Catia [es], Caracas | 63–200+ | Massacre by the National Guard and the Metropolitan Police of prison inmates during the second 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt |
| 1994 Sabaneta fire | 1994, 3 January | Maracaibo, Zulia | 108 | least 108 inmates died in a riot followed by Fire |
| Cararabo massacre [es] | 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. |
| San Román Tragedy [es] | 1995, 23 June | Caracas | 5 | Hostage crisis. Eight wounded. |
| La Planta massacre | 1996, 22 October | Caracas | 29 | 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. |
| 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. |
| Kennedy massacre [es] | 2005, 27 November | Caracas | 3 | College students killed by police officers. Three wounded. |
| El 70 massacre [es] | 2009, 22 September | El Valle Parish, Caracas | 10 | Officers from the now defunct Caracas Metropolitan Police [es] (PM) murdered ten young women identified as alleged members of a criminal gang that operated in different areas of the parish. |
| Los Maniceros massacre | 2009, October | La Tala, Táchira state | 11 | Kidnapping of a Colombian amateur association football team. |
| 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 |
| Uribana prison riot | 2013, 25 January | Barquisimeto, Lara state | 61 | Prison riot. One hundred and twenty wounded. |
| Coro massacre [es] | 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. |
| Sabaneta massacre [es] | 2013, 16 September | Sabaneta, Zulia state | 16 | Gang violence in prison. Forty eight wounded. |
| Altagracia massacre | 2014, 10 November | Altagracia de Orituco [es], Guárico state | 11 | Ambush by El Picure gang |
| 2016 Tumeremo massacre | 2016, 8 March | Tumeremo, Bolívar state | 4 | Disappearance of twenty eight miners. Twenty four miners remain missing. |
| El Valle massacre [es] | 2016, 21 March | Caracas | 10 | Gang violence. Fourteen wounded. |
| Barlovento massacre [es] | 2016, Late | Barlovento, Miranda state | 12 | Disappearance by a Operación Liberación del Pueblo [es] operative. On 25 November common graves were found in the area by the CICPC. |
| Cariaco massacre [es] | 2016, 11 November | Cariaco, Sucre state | 9 | Massacre of fishermen. 3 wounded. |
| Amazonas Judicial Detention Center Massacre [es] | 2017, 15 August | Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas state | 39 | At least 39 people died in a jail riot in Venezuela's southern state of Amazonas |
| El Junquito massacre | 2018, 15 January | El Junquito | 10 | Rebel leader Óscar Alberto Pérez, six rebels and three officials killed. |
| August 2018 Tumeremo massacre | 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. |
| 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. |