World Report 2012: Venezuela

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2012/world-report-2012-venezuela

The weakening of Venezuela’s democratic system of checks and balances under President Hugo Chávez has contributed to a precarious human rights situation. Without judicial checks on its actions, the government has systematically undermined the right to free expression, workers’ freedom of association, and the ability of human rights groups to protect rights.

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Violent crime is rampant in Venezuela, where extrajudicial killings by security agents remain a problem. The minister of the interior and justice has estimated that police commit one of every five crimes. According to the most recent official statistics, law enforcement agents allegedly killed 7,998 people between January 2000 and the first third of 2009.

Impunity for human rights violations remains the norm. In 2010, prosecutors charged individuals allegedly responsible for abuses in less than 3 percent of cases investigated.

In April 2008 Chávez’s administration issued a decree that established a new national police force and enacted measures to promote non-abusive policing proposed by a commission comprised of government and NGO representatives. At this writing there had been no independent evaluation of the new police force’s performance.

[Wilms]

1. The Latest Howlers From Human Rights Watch on Venezuela

By Joe Emersberger
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Predictably, election season in Venezuela has come with yet another voluminous report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that mostly rehashes the debunked claims of its 2008 report. Over a hundred scholars, including Noam Chomsky, signed a letter to HRW protesting the shoddiness of that 2008 report.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4051

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11084499

[polly7]

2. Thank you!, I just got done reading this and wondered if it had been posted here. nt.

[joshcryer]

4. And yet again the RCTV straw man argument is used...

...despite that Venevisión, owned by a multi-billionaire, who hosted the coupsters, is allowed to renew their license. Total fabricated falsehoods that no one still grasps the enormity of with petulant deflections and straw men.

[joshcryer]

5. TLDR version: El Universal = tabloid, RCTV was pro-coup

ie, totally without substance and with regards to RCTV is meritless deflection and lies. Venevisión, owned by multi-billionaire Gustavo Cisneros, host of the coupsters, was allowed to keep their license.

[joshcryer]

3. HRW is only right when it criticizes those we dislike.

[polly7]

6. You seem so bitter regarding any change or news of good

in Venezuela. How come?

Human Rights Watch fucked up in reporting the 'facts' regarding Libya, too. I don't really believe they're committed much to anything the World Bank and IMO, etc. don't want them to be.

[joshcryer]

7. What are you talking about?

I am extremely positive when it comes to Capriles' campaign.

When it comes to Venezuela being oppressive, I am rightly against it.

I don't deflect and throw HRW under the bus when it doesn't fit my preconceived notions.

HRW was not wrong about Libya at all. But I have no idea how that pertains to Latin America.

edit: and still, for the dozenth time, the fact that Venevisión, host of the coupsters, was allowed to renew their license, wasn't addressed. I wonder why. I try and try, and yet no one ever says why they were allowed to renew their license. Venevisión, owned by a multi-billionaire, host of the coupsters.