UN mission to Venezuela: the government is reactivating its most violent repression

The Venezuelan Government is reactivating “the most violent form of repression”, with a new wave of arrests of opponents accused of alleged conspiracies such as the so-called Operation White Braceletindicated this Wednesday the Independent International Mission of UN for Venezuela.

The president of the mission, the Portuguese Marta Valinaspresented before the United Nations Human Rights Council a new report on abuses committed by the Government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela since 2023, where he highlighted that “Authorities invoke real or fictitious conspiracies to intimidate, detain and prosecute people who oppose or criticize the Government.”

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During this period, he indicated, there was a less repressive phase of the opposition, in which the regime Nicolás Maduro limited itself to creating “a climate of fear and intimidation”for a more violent period “which is activated to silence the opposition voices Any price”.

Valinas He highlighted in this sense that in January 2024 Maduro asked “activate Bolivarian Fury” after ensuring that four plots to assassinate him or organize coups d’état were deactivated in the previous year, and that the Attorney General’s Office then revealed the aforementioned Operation White Braceletone of the alleged plots to end the president’s life Venezuelan.

In the context of the fight against this latest conspiracy, it was degraded and expelled 33 soldiers and several critics of the regime were arrested.

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I remember Rocío San Miguel and other persecuted women

Among them, he recalled, party campaign leaders Sell ​​Venezuela (the formation of the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado) and human rights defenders, such as Tamara Suju, Sebastiana Barraez wave Spanish-Venezuelan Rocío São Miguel.

Valinas emphasized that Saint Michaeldetained on February 9 at the airport of Maiquetia “Without a court order, his whereabouts remained unknown for five days.”until authorities reported that she was being held in The Helicoidone of the torture centers documented by the mission”.

He also highlighted that that month, shortly after the mission he presides over and the Office of the UN To the Human rights expressed their concern Saint MichaelThe Venezuelan Government suspended the activities of the technical mission of that office and gave its staff 72 hours to leave the country.

The head of the mission that the Chilean carries out Francisco Cox and Argentina Patricia Tappatá He added that along with Saint Michael documented cases of another 18 women who remain detained on charges of being associated with or involved in “conspiracies”to overthrow the government.

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An election in question

Valinas He also recalled that in the six months analyzed by the mission it was possible to sign Barbados an agreement between the Government and the opposition so that it could participate in the elections on July 28 this year, but subsequent actions revealed the difficulties in its implementation.

The president of the mission gave as an example the suspension by Supreme Court Justice of the October 22nd opposition primaries, won by a large majority Maria Corina Machadoand the ratification by the same court of his 15-year political disqualification, on January 26th.

“These actions highlight the serious difficulties that exist in ensuring that the next presidential elections are held in accordance with the right to participate in public affairs provided for in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” stressed Valinas.

This also drew attention to the arrest warrants against 14 people, including prominent opposition leaders such as Juan Guaidó It is Leopoldo Lópezfor his alleged connection with a conspiracy against the consultative referendum regarding the Guyana Essequibacelebrated on December 3rd.

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Protest in Venezuela

In response, the delegation of Venezuela before him UN Human Rights Council in Geneva He once again rejected the conclusions of the mission and even its legitimacy, created in 2019 by the council itself to investigate human rights abuses in the country.

“The United States, the greatest violator of rights in all of history, the European Union and failure Lima Group They designed this mechanism (the mission) for the purpose of applying maximum pressure on Venezuelamanipulating the instruments and purposes of this Council“, said a representative of the delegation.

“They try to cover up as absolute truths all the atrocities manufactured against Venezuela without verification or sustainable proof”he added, referring to the work of a mission that, in his opinion, “appeals to anonymous and even invented sources”.

Source: Elcomercio

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