Posts Tagged ‘Venezuela’
#VenezuelaBienvenida, a call for solidarity
With this initiative, we want to bring Colombians closer to the stories of the Venezuelans who migrated to our country and the deep economic and humanitarian crisis that Venezuela is experiencing.
Read MoreA Colombian woman appeals to the government for help locating her son arbitrarily detained in Venezuela
Ramona Rangel reports that on July 30th, the [Venezuelan] Bolivarian Intelligence Service took her 24-year-old son, Juan Pedro Lares, from his home in Venezuela. 11 days later, and still without any updates regarding his whereabouts, Rangel is asking the Colombian Embassy in Venezuela for help with her search.
Read MoreThe migratory wall facing refugees
What is it like to migrate to Colombia and the United States? The stories of Johan and Sonia, two of the 65.6 million people who have been forcibly displaced around the world.
Read MoreConstituting a black hole
The Constituent Assembly proposed by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will consume what remains of democracy in Venezuela. It will also make Maduro a dictator who will control all the powers of the state. The international community must vigorously oppose it.
Read MoreAn immature Constituent Assembly
The Constituent Assembly convened by Maduro does not seek to forge a pact between opposing forces, but seeks to crush the opposition through an antidemocratic mechanism, which is also unconstitutional. The international community and even authentic Chavismo should oppose it.
Read More21st century socialism, dictatorship or rebellion?
The Venezuelan government is advancing in its plan to dismantle the 1999 Bolivarian Constitution. And it is the 21st century rebels who defend democracy and human rights against the heirs of 21st century socialism who abdicated their democratic promise.
Read MoreMadurazo
There were no tanks attacking the civil institutions, which characterized previous coups. But in Venezuela there was a coup d’état, which intends to be judicially legalized, but that nevertheless is a democratic rupture.
Read MoreVenezuela, welcome to Colombia
Our Venezuelan brothers and sisters are migrating to Colombia in search of a dignified life. The authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro is creating the worst humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
Read MoreThe progressive silence on Venezuela
As eloquent as the last OAS report on the extinction of democracy and human rights in Venezuela has been the silence of many progressive Latin American sectors, including human rights organizations.
Read MoreVenezuela Should Repeal the Emergency Decree in Force
Dejusticia signed alongside 124 organizations asking the international community to put pressure on Venezuela and its state of emergency decree.
Read MoreReady for the ICC?
A denunciation of the highest levels of the Venezuelan government before the ICC does not have, at least with the information available today, a solid legal foundation.
Read MoreThe Illegality of Venezuela’s Mass Deportations of Colombians
More than 1,000 Colombians have been deported simply for being Colombians in a certain area of Venezuela. According to the ILC, the collective deportation of foreigners is prohibited.
Read MoreWelcome, Inter-American Commission
The de-financing of the IACHR is not an accident, but rather the most effective method of governments to block it or avoid its decisions.
Read MoreLetter from Jamaica
Bolivar’s call in the letter from Jamaica has passed 200 years relatively unnoticed in Colombia.
Read MoreEcuador is Mistakenly following Venezuela’s Lead at the OAS
Despite the Ecuadorian foreign ministry’s optimistic pronouncement last month that the countries of the region were close to reaching a consensus about moving the headquarters of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), their peer States seem to feel differently.
Read MoreUnqualified to Disqualify?
This is about a key decision in defining the powers of the Inspector General’s Office regarding political rights. In the debate about the removal from office of Bogota’s mayor and his disqualification from holding elected office imposed by the Inspector General, the decision but the Inter-American Court in a similar case in Venezuela has been mentioned a lot.
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