Venezuela closes UN human rights office citing ‘colonialist attitude’

autotldr Bot , 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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Gil’s announcement came on the heels of the detention of the human rights attorney Rocío San Miguel, which set off a wave of criticism inside and outside Venezuela.

The government said the UN human rights office must rectify its “colonialist, abusive and violating attitude”, accusing it of playing an “inappropriate role” in the country and supporting impunity for people involved in attempts at assassination, coups, conspiracies and other plots.

Venezuelan state television on Wednesday harshly criticized comments by the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, who just concluded a visit to Venezuela.

Fakhri had said in a statement the government food program does not tackle the root causes of hunger and is susceptible to political influences.

The UN high commissioner for human rights, based in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday had expressed “deep concern” over San Miguel’s detention.

About an hour before Gil’s announcement, the UN agency called for the respect of “due process guarantees, including right to defense” in her case.

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Deceptichum , 6 months ago

They really want to invade Guyana bad.

9iNez , 5 months ago

“Preventing us from establishing imperial colonies through war crimes means you are an imperial colonizer!!!1!” Truly desperate for that Guyanussy.

sin_free_for_00_days , 6 months ago

So many assholes have embraced the colonialist attitude attitude.

febra , 6 months ago

Honestly, yeah, the UN has been used before to aid imperialist powers (i.e. the US littering the UN with spies when investigating Iraq’s supposed WMDs), but something makes me think that Maduro isn’t doing this because of imperialism/colonialism but because he just wants to do more shit without having it end up in UN reports