Venezuela policies leave democracy 'barely alive': UN

[Zorro]

Source: AFP

The widespread rights abuses committed against protesters in Venezuela has left democracy "barely alive", the UN said Wednesday, after France branded the Caracas regime a "dictatorship."

A fresh UN report warned that the rights situation in Venezuela was at "grave risk" of unravelling further as the authorities continue to brutally repress demonstrators, and urged international action.

Recent actions by Venezuela's authorities "support the feeling that what is left of democratic life in Venezuela is being squeezed", UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein told reporters in Geneva, where the report was launched.

Democracy in Venezuela "must be barely alive, if still alive", Zeid said.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-policies-leave-democracy-barely-alive-un-150711983.html

[DetlefK]

1. This is somehow the fault of Big Oil or the CIA or NATO or ...

[Oneironaut]

2. Nobody is starving in Venezuela. Capitalist puppet crisis actors paid by the CIA are marching in

the streets! Every loves the dear leader Maduro! Venezuela is a socialist paradise because of him!

(Not sure if needed, but )

[FLPanhandle]

3. Oh some loon will come along and blame the US soon.

Just wait for it.