The Venezuelan government has confirmed three deaths due to hantavirus, though it denied that two doctors who died in Barinas were infected. Officials stated these are localized events and do not pose a general risk to the community.

A massive riot erupted at a correctional facility in Barinas, Venezuela, where over 1,300 inmates took complete control of the premises, leading to the evacuation of more than one hundred women.

The party of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado reports that Yoel Sucre has been detained at a road checkpoint in La Pedrera, on the Táchira-Barinas highway.