Leading the Venezuelan State’s delegation in Geneva is Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Diaz (Photo by ccorreab)
The Venezuelan State is once again under review this week as the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee will monitor the country’s performance on civil and political rights, based on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The B.R. of V.’s delegation is lead by Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Diaz, who will be joined by the pro-government NGO Guarimba Victims’ Committee (whose spokesperson happens to be an official at the Housing Ministry).
Independent human rights groups will counterargument the State’s position, including Carlos Correa of Espacio Publico and Ligia Bolivar, who’s the coordinator of the Life Forum platform of NGOs and Director of the Human Rights Center of the Andres Bello Catholic University (CDH-UCAB).
You can follow all the details of the sessions (today and tomorrow) at the Examen ONU Venezuela’s twitter account.
But wait a sec… Didn’t the Venezuelan State already had this test recently? That’s kinda correct. But that was a very different test. Earlier this month, the Human Rights Council reviewed Venezuela’s performance in economic, social and cultural rights. If you wanna know how it went, you’re lucky as the conclusions and recommendations came out last week.
Along the thirty recommendations made by the UN-HRC, they urged the Bolivarian Republic to cooperate with human rights NGOs, open up access to public information, guarantee an independent judiciary, improve the evaluation of the social programs known as misiones and reconsider their decision of withdrawing from the American Convention on Human Rights and the Inter-American Human Rights System.
You can see all the findings for yourself by reading the full review here and download it here (but only in Spanish). Also worth reading are the personal observations from the VP of the UN-HRC’s committee in charge of the review, Mikel Mancisidor from Spain (which are also only available in Spanish).
Caracas Chronicles 
Ah, the dictatorship’s gonna whine and lie its ass off again.
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As we all know, the UN is an extremely effective, Great, great organization, working tirelessly for all.
Led by countless, extraordinary women, they are on top of every social, political, even economic issue on the planet:
“The head of the United Nations entity mandated to promote gender equality today highlighted the role of quotas to accelerate women’s political participation, adding that more hands-on measures are needed to achieve significant progress on this issue.
“Today I call for stronger commitment by leaders to increase women’s participation in politics,” said Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), during a press conference in New York.”
Luckily for Venezuela, we are being represented by the brightest, most experienced and highly qualified Mujeres Camaradas del Chavismo:
Luisa Elena Ortega
Desiree Sevelina Cabrera Rodríguez, : Comité de Víctimas de las Guarimbas.
Also, Guarimbeando for our proud nation, Delcy y Sandrita!
“El Estado venezolano deberá presentar mañana un informe ante el Comité Derechos Humanos Civiles y Políticos de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU), que lo interpelará en la ciudad de Ginebra, Suiza. Delcy Rodríguez, canciller de la República, se reunió con Luisa Ortega, fiscal general de la República, y Sandra Oblitas, rectora principal del Consejo Nacional Electoral, para evaluar el texto que será presentado”
Adelante compañeras, echen su cuento por la Patria!
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Thanks for covering the PSUV internal elections. Omitting them is tantamount to censorship. The results and the level of participation does not suit CC’s politics.
Thnaks for reporting on the latest Hinterlaces survey showing that 62% of Venezuelans want a socialist government. Omission is tantamount to censorship.
And yes – the women representing Venezuela at the UN are the best and brightest. I guess you would send Lilian Tintori and Mitzy Capriles to do a better job or even Maria Machado.
Forget deviating attention away from what happened yestrday. Taking the piss out of Venezuela’s representatives at the UN will not win you any votes……………hehehehehehe……
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Oh..just shup up, tool!
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He wants mandatory repetition of government propaganda so independent information gets marginalized.
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Cuanto te pagan, Arturito?
Si eres religioso, anda a confesarte rapidito antes que te mante algun malandro y te reunas en pleno infierno con tu comandante chaves.
http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2015/06/29/iglesia-exige-al-cne-mostrar-independencia-en-parlamentarias/
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They want a Socialist government, but do they want a hopelessly incompetent, shamelessly corrupt, and dictatorial one?
Arturo, I’m glad you are having fun, as people die and suffer due to lack of basic medical supplies and whole swaths of the country cannot leave their neighborhoods after dark due to the out of control crime. Great humanitarian you are.
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Actually, “tantamount” to censorship is:
– Refusing to sell newsprint to non-chavista newspapers.
– Buying off Globovisión, Cadena Capriles, El Universal, Notitarde, and a long etc, just to keep awkward stories from being published.
– Closing off RCTV and more than a hundred radio stations whose editorial line wasn’t of their liking.
– Jailing people who tweet stuff Chavismo doesn´t like.
– Trying (and failing) to keep Venezuelans from reading DolarToday.
– Harassing journalists.
When a government prevents people from publishing certain content, THAT is censorship.
When someone decides not to publish something themselves, without interfering in the ability of others to publish it, it´s an exercise of free speech. Free speech means being able to publish what you want to publish and being able to not publish what you don´t feel like publishing.
If you’re really anti-censorship, you should be complaining about CONATEL or the RESORTE act.
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Well redacted, Mr. Navarro. In fairness, this Arturo chap perhaps a touch cantankerous after having spent the day in long queue to vote. http://globovision.com/abiertas-100-de-los-mesas-para-las-primarias-del-psuv/ …….
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Is there no difference between a modern socialist government and communism? The poll didn’t ask how people felt about communism being shoved down their throat.
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A dissenting voice: http://konzapata.com/2015/06/quien-se-cree-la-historia-de-los-millones-que-salieron-a-votar-en-las-primarias-del-psuv/
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Anda a cagar, Arturo. Aporrea es tu lugar
Y me perdonan el francés, esta clase de gente no merece respuestas de altura.
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Ayyy,,, como hase una para aplical a este prestijioso Comite de Victimas de la Guarimba?
Dan alguna preferensia a las mujeres pobres incritas en el PSUV como y mi helmana Yiselita?
Tambien queremo ir pa Suisa!!
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Solo tené que decí que toitica tu familia te la queblalon unoj siflinitos peluconej con unaj biejaj lonchosaj ejcuálidaj, y que tu familia ela toitica de loj colectivoj y gualdianasi.
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Excellent information in this post. Very useful
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The Chavistas Live at the ONU now, lying about everything
or “Castillo: En Venezuela nunca ha habido tanta libertad de expresión #ONUVzla — on twitter
Their capacity to LIE and twist information is amazing.
http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/treaty-body-webcast-i/
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Well, thye have thousands of millions of green reasons to do so.
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You can watch the UN HRC live here: http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/human-rights-council/
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Tan bella Luisita Ortega, que valiente cuando declaro ante la ONU y el mundo entero que hoy hay mas libertades en Venezuela que nunca! Y ademas que linda y bien educada es ella:
http://sumarium.com/el-impasse-de-luisa-ortega-diaz-en-la-onu/
Cuando hablara Desiree, dulce camarada del gran Comité de Víctimas de las Guarimbas?
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Yes, linda and educada, thanks to her recent admission publicly that in the Cuarta she (and, presumably other Revolutionary ladies like her) had to exchange favors in order to graduate; from there, the sky was the limit, wearing a beret in the streets of Maracay, following a Che look-a-like, defending the rights of the downtrodden, as she does now, those poor Chavista women victims of the Police State repression of the Guarimbas….
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Y ahora tenemos cuota preferensial en la universiade tambien!
http://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2015/06/01/chavistas-co-opt-venezuelan-universities-with-affirmative-action/
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Viewed from afar, it is pretty striking that Ortega presents, in evidence, a document purportedly signed by Justice Afiuni, attesting to her good treatment while in jail, and Afiuni immediately and under oath, calls it a forgery. It is actually an international criminal offence to present forged evidence as valid, unless you have inquired into its validity before presentation….
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Well, chavismo has a long story of forging false stuff just to make an excuse to screw others.
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Please listen Afiuni accusing Luisa Ortega to show a false document in the ONU…it is a long video but I am glad I listened it.
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