Driving in Venezuela
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Paraguay on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Paraguay to Venezuela · Driving and licence exchange
Only one body issues, renews, suspends or revokes a Venezuelan licence: the national land transport institute. To drive you must carry a current licence of the grade matching the vehicle, plus a current comprehensive medical certificate, which the health ministry issues free of charge. What the Act does not do is say anything about foreigners. It delegates that whole question - everything to do with granting licences to foreigners - to its own regulation, and we could not find a regulation made under this Act. A vehicle brought in by a tourist under an international agreement may circulate on its home plates for the length of the legal stay, provided it carries civil liability cover.
At a glance
- Issuing body
- Instituto Nacional de Transporte Terrestre
- Terms on which a foreigner is licensed
- Delegated by the Act to its regulation
- Medical certificate
- Required, issued free by the health ministry
- Foreign plates
- Allowed for the length of the legal stay, under an international agreement
- National transport as a business
- Reserved to Venezuelans and resident foreigners
Requirements
- A current licence of the grade or category matching the vehicle, issued by the national land transport institute
- A current comprehensive medical certificate, issued free of charge by the health ministry
- Civil liability insurance on the vehicle
- For a vehicle brought in as a tourist under an international agreement: the civil liability cover or guarantee, and whatever the institute requires
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Paraguay
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Para conducir un vehículo, la persona debe obtener y portar la licencia o título profesional de conducir, vigente, del grado o categoria que corresponda al tipo de vehículo a motor respectivo, expedida por el Instituto Nacional de Transporte Terrestre y el Certificado Médico de Salud Integral vigente»Our translation - not official
To drive a vehicle a person must obtain and carry a current driving licence or professional driving title of the grade or category corresponding to the type of motor vehicle, issued by the National Land Transport Institute, and a current Comprehensive Health Medical Certificate.
Taken from our own recognition of the gazette facsimile the National Assembly publishes, which has no text layer.
«Artículo 66. En el Reglamento de esta Ley se determinará todo lo relacionado con el otorgamiento de licencias para extranjeros y extranjeras.»Our translation - not official
Everything relating to the grant of licences to foreigners shall be determined in the Regulation of this Law.
This is the whole of what the Act says about foreigners and licences. The heading above it in the gazette reads 'Licencia para extranjeros y extranjeras'.
«Los vehículos que en el marco de los acuerdos o convenios internacionales suscritos por la Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela ingresen al país en condición de turistas, podrán circular con sus placas identificadoras de origen durante el tiempo de su estadía legal, siempre que posean la garantía o poliza de responsabilidad civil y se sometan a todos los requisitos que fije el Instituto Nacional de Transporte Terrestre.»Our translation - not official
Vehicles entering the country as tourists under international agreements or conventions signed by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela may circulate on their home identification plates for the length of their legal stay, provided they hold the civil liability guarantee or policy and meet all the requirements set by the National Land Transport Institute.
Taken from our own recognition of a gazette facsimile with no text layer.
«La prestación del servicio nacional de transporte terrestre público y privado, de personas y de carga, se reserva para los venezolanos y las venezolanas y para los extranjeros y las extranjeras residentes.»Our translation - not official
The provision of the national public and private land transport service, for people and for goods, is reserved to Venezuelans and to resident foreigners.
Taken from our own recognition of a gazette facsimile with no text layer.
Practical notes
Because the Act delegates the whole of the foreigner question to a regulation, the terms on which a foreign licence is exchanged or a resident foreigner is licensed are not something this entry can state. The two regulations we could read - one of 1998 and one of 1990 - were made under the Ley de Tránsito Terrestre, which this Act repealed, and they do not agree with each other on how long a foreigner must have been in the country.
The Act's tourist-plate rule depends on there being an international agreement. It names none, and we found no list of them.
- issuesLey de Transporte Terrestre, Gaceta Oficial N° 38.985 de 1 de agosto de 2008
Asamblea Nacional de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela
About this source
Venezuela's legislature, and the only reachable index of Venezuelan law. Its database of laws in force gives, for each instrument, the Gaceta Oficial number and date, the vacatio legis, what it repealed, a condition flag reading 'Vigencia Total', and a PDF of the gazette page. It carries decretos constituyentes and decretos-leyes as well as its own Acts, so the 2015 income tax law, the 2020 Tax Code and the 2020 customs law are all here. With the Imprenta Nacional's gazette service unreachable, this is the nearest thing to the publisher of record that can be read.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its PDFs are scans with no text layer - OmniPage output, jbig2 images, pdftotext returns nothing - so anything quoted from them is our own recognition and must carry extractMethod 'ocr'. The recognition reads the gazette's two columns out of order, drops article headings and whole numerals, and on at least one law invents text outright: the Ley Orgánica de Aduanas comes back with Chinese characters spliced into Spanish clauses. A negative claim must never rest on a reading taken from here. It must not be cited for the law as consolidated either: each PDF is one gazette issue, and where that issue reprints a single text the reprint date is the date of the last amendment, not a sweep. There is no working site search and no working pagination - every listing URL with a query string returns an empty response to both Firecrawl and a direct fetch - so an instrument can only be found by guessing its slug, and failing to find one here is not evidence that it does not exist.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
- issuesAsamblea Nacional - Ley de Transporte Terrestre
Asamblea Nacional de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela
About this source
Venezuela's legislature, and the only reachable index of Venezuelan law. Its database of laws in force gives, for each instrument, the Gaceta Oficial number and date, the vacatio legis, what it repealed, a condition flag reading 'Vigencia Total', and a PDF of the gazette page. It carries decretos constituyentes and decretos-leyes as well as its own Acts, so the 2015 income tax law, the 2020 Tax Code and the 2020 customs law are all here. With the Imprenta Nacional's gazette service unreachable, this is the nearest thing to the publisher of record that can be read.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its PDFs are scans with no text layer - OmniPage output, jbig2 images, pdftotext returns nothing - so anything quoted from them is our own recognition and must carry extractMethod 'ocr'. The recognition reads the gazette's two columns out of order, drops article headings and whole numerals, and on at least one law invents text outright: the Ley Orgánica de Aduanas comes back with Chinese characters spliced into Spanish clauses. A negative claim must never rest on a reading taken from here. It must not be cited for the law as consolidated either: each PDF is one gazette issue, and where that issue reprints a single text the reprint date is the date of the last amendment, not a sweep. There is no working site search and no working pagination - every listing URL with a query string returns an empty response to both Firecrawl and a direct fetch - so an instrument can only be found by guessing its slug, and failing to find one here is not evidence that it does not exist.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source