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VenEconomy: Opening their eyes
Two things are complicating things for Hugo Chávez on the international front. At least, that is the conclusion that can be drawn from the warning bells that have been sounding with greater insistence this year in different scenarios.
Warning bells were set off with the closure of Radio Caracas TV Internacional (RCTVI), among them those sounded by 1) Canada’s Secretary of State for the American continent Peter Kent, who expressed his government’s concern over the suspension of six television channels and the death of two students during demonstrations in protest at the measure; 2) the European Parliament, which expressed "deep concern " over the Chávez administration’s "authoritarian course"; 3) Panama’s permanent representative before the OAS, Guillermo Cochez, who expressly stated that the Venezuelan Government is violating democratic principles and human rights, in particular the freedom of speech.
Another loud warning bell was sounded on February 24 at Cancún by the outgoing president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, who, without naming Hugo Chávez, offered a verbal portrait of the Venezuelan President, saying among other things, that “There are in our region governments that avail themselves of election results to justify their desire to restrict individual freedoms and persecute their adversaries.” These governments, he continued, “avail themselves of a democratic mechanism to subvert the bases of democracy.”
Last week, it was the turn of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to sound the warning bell with a 325-page report that states that, in Venezuela, there serious proof that “the full enjoyment of human rights is being restricted.” The report denounces that, in Venezuela, there is no separation and independence of the branches of government; that the punitive power of the State is used to intimidate and sanction people for their political opinions; that the conditions do not exist for the defenders of human rights and journalists do their job freely; and that there is a pattern of impunity in cases of violent crimes that affects journalists, defenders of human rights, journalists, demonstrators, people who have been deprived of their freedom, farmers, indigenous peoples, and women.
This Monday, the international press sounded an energetic warning bell with the denouncement by Justice Eloy Velasco of Spain’s National Court that there are indications of the Venezuelan Government’s “cooperation” with the terrorist FARC-ETA alliance, which had apparently been conspiring to attack high-level Colombian government officials in Spain, among them President Álvaro Uribe and former President Andrés Pastrana. Among the 13 accused in the case being heard by Judge Velasco is the alleged ETA member Arturo Cubillas Fontán, who occupied a post in Hugo Chávez’s government.
While Chávez’s communist process becomes daily more radical, people abroad are having their eyes opened to the dramatic situation that is unfolding in Venezuela.
VenEconomy has been a Venezuela's leading specialized publisher on financial, political and economic data since 1982. VenEconomy's Points of View on the issues of the day, as seen by VenEconomy during the last week. Petroleumworld does not necessarily share these views.
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