{"id":15980,"date":"2019-10-21T00:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T07:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15980"},"modified":"2019-10-21T00:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T07:12:48","slug":"the-perpetual-whittling-away-of-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/10\/21\/the-perpetual-whittling-away-of-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perpetual Whittling Away of Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"

     How bad is it in Venezuela? So bad that fleeing Venezuelans are willing to accept<\/a> forced labor and sexual exploitation rather than go back. Increasingly, nations are recognizing that something<\/em> has to be done to stop the perpetual slow collapse<\/a> of Venezuela, even to the point of calling on the United Nations. After all, with Maduro going out of the way to alienate potential allies<\/a>, then certainly opposition within the United Nations could be found, right?<\/p>\n

     Wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights Venezuela released a blistering report on Venezuela in July. It found that President Nicolas Maduro’s government engaged in widespread human rights abuses, including the torture and murder of political opponents and average citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday, Venezuela was also elected to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, an intergovernmental body charged with \u2018strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso being elected to fill several of the 14 vacant seats on the 47-member council were Mauritania\u2014where local human rights groups estimate that up to 20 percent of the population is enslaved\u2014and Sudan, currently led by a hybrid civilian-military council chaired by a general who overthrew the last president in a coup.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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     It\u2019s not like they engage in supporting drug-trafficking terrorists<\/a>\u2026 or worse<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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#30Sep<\/a> This is Venezuela ..jailed youths stripped naked while #CockFights<\/a> ensue on their naked bodies…. #HumanRights<\/a> @HRC<\/a> @UNHumanRights<\/a> @hrw<\/a>
pic.twitter.com\/q1zwnJZg3I<\/a><\/p>\n

— Michael Welling (@WellingMichael) October 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n