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 |
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 |
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 Right to Have Rights: A Debate on Nationality in Colombia
By Lucía Ramírez Bolívar, Silvia Ruiz |
Over ten human rights organizations appeared before the Constitutional Court asking to adopt the definition of domicile contained in the Civil Code, as provided in the Political Constitution and Law 43/1993
From repression to migration: The case of Rufo Chacón
By Ezequiel Monsalve |
Rufo Chacón, in the company of his mother, is preparing to travel to Spain, where he will get the surgical intervention needed to improve his condition.
“Without us, the world would not turn”
By María Ximena Dávila |
Understanding the reasons why certain women from certain regions end up doing certain work opens the door for critically approaching the fact that the majority of domestic workers are migrants in precarious situations.
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.
Juan Pedro Lares: The freed prisoner that never was
By Krizna Gomez |
Juan Pedro Lares, a 24-year old Colombian-Venezuelan young man, who was abducted by a hundred civilian-dressed members of the Venezuelan Intelligence, the National Guard, the police, and armed civilian groups from his family’s home in July of last year was finally set free . But a feeling of injustice still lingers.
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.
