U.S. State Department Attacks Venezuela for Human Rights Abuses

[chlamor]

US State Department Attacks Venezuela for Human Rights Abuses

Tuesday, Mar 01, 2005

Caracas, Venezuela, March 1, 2005—The U.S. State Department released its annual human rights report yesterday criticizing Venezuela, among other countries, on a wide array of fronts. The nineteen pages of the report dedicated to Venezuela paint an overall bleak picture, describing the human rights situation as "poor, despite attempts at improvement in a few areas," and claiming that conditions have "deteriorated during the past year." 
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According to Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, "The US government is less and less able to push for justice abroad, because it's unwilling to see justice done at home," adding, "Governments facing human rights pressure from the United States now find it easy to turn the tables…Washington can not very well uphold principles that it violates itself."

Venezuela's Vice-President José Vicente Rangel said the U.S. lacks moral authority to criticize Venezuela's human rights record.

According to Rangel, the United States is the nation that violates human rights more so that any other nation in the world.  The Vice President gave several examples of these violations, including, "the murders of thousands of people, children, women, senior citizens, as is happing in Iraq, Afghanistan, where the torture of prisoners has been confirmed; in concentration camps in Guantanamo, in the deprivation of due process, in the laws contradictory to basic principles of rights such as the Patriot Act."

"This is a political document that was required by the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roger Noriega, in order to be able to say that Venezuela is an example of abuse and violation of human rights," noted Larry Birns, the director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) in Washington, adding that "although there is no evidence as an investigative report should have; it is only political propaganda."
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1529

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Guantanamo

Enough said.

[bemildred]

5. Abu Ghraib.

But the list is much longer than that.

[Love Bug]

2. Kinda hard for US to take the moral high gound now, isn't it?

Don't we get a lot of our oil from Venezuela? Is this the beginning of dissing them so we can make an excuse later to invade?

[shadowknows69]

3. I think they meant that Venezuela

was violating corporate greed rights in order to give its people more of a stake in their own country. I'm sure that's what our state department must have meant. Somebody has to call us on this bullshit list we've put out.

[saltpoint]

4. Mr. Chavez should hold a press conference tomorrow --

-- and announce that the criticism by the U.S. of his country is puzzling in light of the U.S. obsession with torture.

Further, he should suggest that the current U.S. administration might get its own house in order before it criticises others.

As moral high-ground holding goes, the schedule after Abhu Graib is a long string of away games.

[Pastiche423]

6. I look forward to President Chavez's response

;)

[Gman]

7. Putin put Bush in his place

I guess Chavez is next.

Damn, these people are stupid... as if anyone at all would take this report seriously.

[shadowknows69]

13. that's all the sheeple see on our media

So it must be the truth. USA good. Rest of world BAD.

[anarchy1999]

8. Dear President Chavez,

Please attack back against these accusations and call the US of A and the criminal Bush Administration to account.

Thank you, Just one more concerned citizen of the US of A.

on edit:

There is plenty of documentation, witnesses, and history to support any case you may like to put forward in the court of international opinion.

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. These reports MUST be for local comsumption, the Faux crowd et al

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Cuz no OTHER country in the world is giving credibility to the State Department's Drivel

While the USA's representative prances around the world in jack-boots

WE ARE IMPRESSED!!

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[OneBlueSky]

10. pot . . . kettle . . . nuff said . . . n/t

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[eridani]

11. Coup attempt prelude, probably

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=25843

VHeadline.com can, however, reveal that we have been able to corroborate intelligence details from other reliable sources which show a build-up of subversive activities focusing on a possible date within the next one hundred days. Activities out of the US Embassy bunker on Colinas de Valle Arriba as well as covert locations outside the capital show the high-level participation of US government agencies in support of violent anti-government groupings intent on the overthrow of President Hugo Chavez Frias' democratically-elected government.

The same confidential intelligence sources also formed the basis of our February 3, 2002, World Exclusive in which we revealed the preliminaries to the April 2002 coup d'etat which saw US puppet dictator Pedro Carmona Estanga seize power to dissolve the Constitution, Congress and the Venezuelan judiciary all in one fell swoop.

Now ... as then ... covert US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives are already in place in Venezuela as the SOA/WHISC prepares for what we can only describe as "a third bite at the cherry."

A build-up of USAAF and Navy contingents are already assembling at a Southern Command base on the Caribbean island of Aruba (Netherlands Antilles) to provide logistic and material back-up to an invasion force and the Pentagon is also preparing for a US Navy hospital ship to be readied to sail off the Venezuela's northern coastline.
In a further VHeadline.com exclusive on February 8 (2002) we quoted unnamed but highly-placed diplomatic and IC sources as telling us of the Washington-initiated plot to assassinate President Hugo Chavez Frias and added that “Spanish-speaking US military operatives are already present in Venezuela lending logistic support to several anti-government terror cells in what’s described as ‘a fail-safe plan’ to dislodge Chavez Frias and to win US control over strategic oil supplies.”

[Judi Lynn]

12. Hope our pResident's scheme to murder Venezuela's popular President

will fail. This is simply evil.

To think that within the last few days, a clown posted that the people of Venezuela don't believe there are any plans to kill Chavez Frias is contemptible. Most people who follow news of this man know there have been at least a couple of attempts on his life already.

May _Bush develope a conscience in time to keep him from sinning even more against the human race. He owes a hideous debt already to the people of the world, to life, and to the world to come.




photos: Senior US Officials Cozy up to Dictator Who Boils People Alive

http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/us-and-uz.htm

[0007]

14. Holy smoke! These jokers can't be serious are they?

Who in the world is gonna believe this one? And we wonder why we haven't a friend on this planet.

[LynnTheDem]

15. "Washington can not very well uphold principles that it violates itself."

Exactly.