#VenezuelaBienvenida
Citizen-led initiatives like #VenezuelaBienvenida (#VenezuelaIsWelcome in English) are reassuring, which calls on the country to get involved in the crisis on the side of human rights, to open channels of conversation, while promoting research and action to avoid the festering social rejection of Venezuelans.
By Irina Alejandra Junieles Acosta |
The policy of love
In Venezuela, a law was passed imposing harsh penalties for those who promote hatred and fascism. Pretending to eradicate hate and impose love is a typical feature of tyranny.
By Mauricio García Villegas |
The forgotten migrants of Venezuela
The lack of memory of Latin Americans explains why the region knows so little, and does less, about the situation of more than one million Venezuelan migrants who have arrived in our countries during the last five years.
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Constituting a black hole
The Constituent Assembly proposed by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will consume what remains of democracy in Venezuela. It will also make Maduro a dictator who will control all the powers of the state. The international community must vigorously oppose it.
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
An immature Constituent Assembly
The Constituent Assembly convened by Maduro does not seek to forge a pact between opposing forces, but seeks to crush the opposition through an antidemocratic mechanism, which is also unconstitutional. The international community and even authentic Chavismo should oppose it.
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Madurazo
There were no tanks attacking the civil institutions, which characterized previous coups. But in Venezuela there was a coup d'état, which intends to be judicially legalized, but that nevertheless is a democratic rupture.
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Ready for the ICC?
A denunciation of the highest levels of the Venezuelan government before the ICC does not have, at least with the information available today, a solid legal foundation.
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The Illegality of Venezuela’s Mass Deportations of Colombians
More than 1,000 Colombians have been deported simply for being Colombians in a certain area of Venezuela. According to the ILC, the collective deportation of foreigners is prohibited.
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The Mail of Dishonor
In one of the most difficult moments of the French Revolution (September 1793), when Robespierre feared that his political project would topple, the revolutionary government promulgated a law that identified suspects as "all those who due to their behavior, relationships, intent, or writings, reveal themselves in favor of federalism and as enemies of liberty."
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Venezuela Opinion
The ICC Venezuela Referral and the Tumultuous Shift in Latin American Politics
By Daniel Marín, Aaron Alfredo Acosta |
With the rise of right-wing presidents in Latin America, measures like the referral can be abused by such governments to advance their political agendas in the region, thereby delegitimizing the crucial cause of seeking justice for victims in Venezuela as a common goal.
Vacillation towards migrants
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
The situation of Venezuelan migrants is too serious and urgent to equivocate on good faith and sway with the changing political circumstances of each government.
Venezuela in a spiral
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
El Helicoide gets its name from the geometric shape of the building that houses the prison, which resembles a spiral. The crisis in the prison and the elections this Sunday could worsen the spiral of Maduro’s regime towards arbitrariness.
In Venezuela, cancer patients are dying without access to morphine
By Isabel Pereira, Lucía Ramírez Bolívar |
The shortage of medicine in Venezuela has generated a humanitarian crisis that impacts thousands of patients. According to approximated statistics, only 10% of patients with terminal and/or chronic illnesses that require medication like morphine actually enjoy access to such. They face a dilemma of having to choose between hunger and pain.
#VenezuelaBienvenida
By Irina Alejandra Junieles Acosta |
Citizen-led initiatives like #VenezuelaBienvenida (#VenezuelaIsWelcome in English) are reassuring, which calls on the country to get involved in the crisis on the side of human rights, to open channels of conversation, while promoting research and action to avoid the festering social rejection of Venezuelans.
Maduro’s dictatorship
By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019) |
The sudden call for elections by Nicolás Maduro's government could aggravate the humanitarian situation in Venezuela. In addition, it is another sign that in some countries democracy is weakening, with alarming results.
The policy of love
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In Venezuela, a law was passed imposing harsh penalties for those who promote hatred and fascism. Pretending to eradicate hate and impose love is a typical feature of tyranny.
Venezuela: freedom for Juan Pedro Lares
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
I want to share a story with those who question the gravity of the breakdown of human rights and democracy in Venezuela.
Why Venezuela is a dictatorship
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
The dismantling of democracy can be incremental, like it was in Venezuela. First, there was the co-option of the courts, then the persecution of the political opposition, and last year, the suspension of regional elections. And now, with the Constituent Assembly, Maduro leapt into the dark.
