The agency has 72 hours to leave the country, marking a “drastic hardening” of conditions inside the South American nation.
A United Nations agency that monitors and defends human rights was ordered on Thursday to leave Venezuela by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, an extraordinary move that will further strip the country of foreign oversight at a time when its government stands accused of intensifying repression.
The announcement by Yván Gil, the foreign minister, comes just days after the detention and disappearance of Rocío San Miguel, a prominent security expert and human rights advocate.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The announcement by Yván Gil, the foreign minister, comes just days after the detention and disappearance of Rocío San Miguel, a prominent security expert and human rights advocate.
Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based Venezuela expert for International Crisis Group, said the expulsion of the human rights agency, combined with Ms. San Miguel’s arrest, “marks a drastic hardening” by Mr. Maduro’s government of its actions against political opponents and critics.
The move also signals a dramatic turn in Venezuela, where just a few months ago Mr. Maduro was signing an accord with the country’s opposition and agreeing to work toward a free and fair presidential election.
And the arrests of Ms. San Miguel and five members of her family have critics, journalists and human rights workers concerned that they have entered a new era of political control and retribution.
Ever since, Mr. Maduro has been trying to claw his way back on to the world stage, and international recognition has been the carrot that the United States and other governments have held before him, offering it as reward for democratic concessions.
They have a large office complex in east Caracas, the capital, and have been a crucial source of humanitarian assistance in a place where nearly 80 percent of people say that they worry about going without food, according to a 2022 report from the Andrés Bello Catholic University.
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Curaçao, Aruba and Trinidad and Tobago: ah fuck.
More and more Venezuelans are going to flee the country. Also are they preparing to commit war crimes in Guyana?
Also are they preparing to commit war crimes in Guyana?
Based on the fact that they’re forcibly removing human rights groups, I’d say that’s a resounding guaranteed YES.
Taking everyone for a ride, as usual.
New York Times – Bias and Credibility
Bias Rating: Left-Center
Factual Reporting: High
Country: USA
Press Freedom Rating: Mostly Free
Media Type: Newspaper
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: High Credibility
I really like these metrics that some posters have started adding! It helps to quickly determine what is the credibility of the source!
If it were in any accurate lol.
Lol this reads like it was written by someone at the NYT
Hahaha.
Welcome to Media’s Bias Fact Check, the site where everything’s made up and the ratings don’t matter.
It’s so ridiculously biased, I remember an Indian paper getting good marks for everything but they rated it extremely low because they didn’t provide links to things - as if any other paper does that.
The site is the subjective opinion of one guy, it’s not meaningful.
Actually many other papers will cite sources, having no checkable sources is a perfectly valid reason to have your credibility questioned.
You don’t have to provide a hyperlink to cite a source.
Nothing good in the history of mankind has ever come from conservatism. Maduro is a prime example of nothing good.
Shouldn’t be a terribly shocking move from a communist country?
