Human Rights in Venezuela: Defeating Media Lies and Organizations Subjected to Imperialism

Published at: 15/02/2024 08:00 PM

In the midst of the multiple aggressions to which the Venezuelan people have been victims, such as the imposition of unilateral coercive measures by the United States and its allies, the Bolivarian Government has joined forces and developed policies to guarantee the comprehensive stability of all.

The attacks against the economy are accompanied by smear campaigns against the Venezuelan State in an attempt to justify themselves, while resistance and joint work between the People and the Government face up to overcome adversities and dismantle each of the imperial lies.

One of the flanks of aggression on the part of the national and international extreme right has been human rights (Human Rights), which they have tried to exploit to question the actions of the Venezuelan justice system against the conspiracies and terrorist plans that attempt to overthrow the Government of President Nicolás Maduro.

The defense of terrorism

Aligned with the interests of North American imperialism, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, recently came to the defense of the conspirator Rocío San Miguel, arrested and accused for her involvement in the “ White Bracelet” magnicidal plan, aimed at assassinating the head of state and other high authorities of the Bolivarian Government.

In this regard, the Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, announced this Thursday the decision to suspend the activities of the Technical Advisory Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights operating in Caracas and requested that officials of this instance leave the country within the next 72 hours.

Through an official statement read by the Foreign Minister during a press conference, the Bolivarian Government stresses that the decision responds “to the improper role that this institution has played, which, far from showing it as an impartial entity, has led it to become the private firm of coup and terrorist groups that constantly conspire against the country.”

However, he assured that, “regardless of this action we are taking, we maintain all our commitments in the area of human rights; it is an administrative decision that suspends the collaboration and operation of this office, because it has deviated from its mandate.”

He recalled that this body was created to collaborate technically with the Venezuelan State “to optimize all matters of human rights protection in the country and show the world the attachment of the Bolivarian Government, but it has been instrumented to be a sounding board for the Venezuelan extreme right opposition.”

The diplomat noted that the Venezuelan State has already dismantled five conspiracies aimed at attempting the life of Maduro, some of its popularly elected ministers and governors.

“Could it be that the President of the Republic, the ministers, the governors don't have the right to life, don't they have human rights? We have not seen any statement, not the most timid one from the office in Caracas and let alone from the Office of the High Commissioner condemning or expressing concern that violent groups try to generate or attempt to assassinate the president,” he criticized.

Respect for human rights and the harm of “sanctions”

Until Wednesday, February 14, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, was in Venezuela for two weeks, who saw firsthand how “cruel and ruthless” are the unilateral coercive measures imposed, misnamed “sanctions”, by the West against the South American nation.

In particular, he explained that he saw with his own eyes how coercive measures limit financial opportunities and affect the most vulnerable population, but the Bolivarian Government is advancing policies to overcome these criminal tools, going from an almost total impact on the agri-food system to today having a Venezuela with full supply, with full access to food for the people.

In 25 years of Revolution, Venezuela has the capacity to show all the achievements to guarantee access to food, a fundamental human right that imperial factors have attacked under the complicit silence of the international community.

During his appearance this Thursday before the media, the Foreign Minister highlighted the achievements of the Executive to guarantee respect for human rights in the country for the entire population, while during the governments of the Fourth Republic, Venezuelans were “victims of constant violation and no country of those that today shout and come out in defense of coup and terrorist bodies supported the people of Venezuela”.

He said that conscious mobilization was what achieved the current result in the matter, such as the Constitution of the Republic, “deeply inspired by the values of defending human rights, laws that protect the civil, political and human rights of all citizens of Venezuela .”

Gil said that Venezuela has made progress “in consolidating laws and comprehensive protection of the rights of the people, the right to live in peace, the right to live in peace, the right to live with prosperity”, so the factors of the right wing and imperialism began “to exploit human rights precisely against these policies of protection of the people and since 1999, the issue of human rights has been useful for carrying out campaigns against the Government Bolivarian,” he denounced.

Despite this, he said, Venezuela is one of the Latin American countries that “strictly respects everything that has to do with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, which is why “collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner began, which installed in Caracas a representation that today has 13 officials”, who, until the suspension of activities, were offered “the greatest collaboration, access to instances of the Government, to State security bodies, to justice, to the Public Prosecutor's Office, without restrictions of any kind, because in Venezuela we have nothing to hide (...) we are proud of how we treat the issue of human rights and how we protect them”.

Mazo News Team