"Venezuela has taken the stance of a rogue State"

[naaman fletcher]

Venezuela on Tuesday, March 1 will have to explain to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) why it decided to ban Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan opposition leader and former mayor of Chacao municipality, from exercising his political rights. Although, the IACHR is likely to order the Venezuelan government to overturn López's political disqualification, Venezuela is unlikely to comply with the decision, according to Venezuelan legal experts.

They reviewed the Venezuelan government's compliance with 10 previous rulings issued by the court based in San José (Costa Rica), and Venezuela has not fully complied with any of such decisions. Venezuelan authorities have only partially complied with two rulings related to the massacres of El Amparo, where 14 fishermen were killed in October 1988, and a popular uprising in February 1989 in Caracas, known as the "Caracazo," where hundreds of Venezuelans were killed. However, Venezuela has not complied with the remaining eight rulings.

Luisa Estella Morales, the president of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, termed as "unacceptable" a decision of the Inter-American Court in October 2009 and advised the government to withdraw from the court.

In this connection, human rights professor and international law expert Héctor Faúndez said that "Venezuela is a rogue state, because it has placed itself at the margin of the Inter-American system."

http://english.eluniversal.com/2011/02/28/venezuela-has-taken-the-stance-of-a-rogue-state.shtml

[joshcryer]

1. Leopoldo López is too big of a threat, and it is unsurprising that this happened.

When you arbitrarily uphold the law the law does not exist, it is pure corruption.