Rights monitor blasts Venezuela govt for expulsion

[QUOTE=who"article"] The two were forced onto the first flight out just hours after presenting a report by their New York-based group concluding that "discrimination on political grounds has been a defining feature" of the Chavez presidency."[/QUOTE]

Priceless!

no Hoegaarden in Venezuela, Aruba, here we come!

Thank god we have Chavez, he is undoubtedly the best venezuelan presidente ever, and we support him

I see his good.
I see his bad.
You see his good.
YOU, are half blind.

I_need_a_beer wrote:

I see his good.
I see his bad.
You see his good.
YOU, are half blind.

The problems of venezuelan politics must be solved by venezuelans, you are not from this country so you don't have the feelings we do, you are completely blind!

"Ayyy....but half-blind, the pirate"

That would be good, if Venezuelans would, as they should, if they COULD, but Chavez is singing the song his way. It's the CROOKS in government that make the world chaos, and yes, I know that Bush is, leader of the pack.

Over the past 20 yrs I have spent varying amounts of time here in Venezuela. I have over-educated colleagues, and deal with many global political issues due to work. He's not the worst, he may be the best in a long time, in some respects, but he is also not what the people deserve. This is hard to defend from the viewpoint of people living in poverty or ranchos

If someone got arrested in the states during a coup attempt that was suspected of participating, I wonder what the US would have done to them.... Oh yeah, sed them to Guantanamo Bay and torture their asses.
Yeah but when it happens in Venezuela, they just deport them (for visa violations). Chavez is sooooo evil...

dan wrote:

If someone got arrested in the states during a coup attempt that was suspected of participating, I wonder what the US would have done to them.... Oh yeah, sed them to Guantanamo Bay and torture their asses.
Yeah but when it happens in Venezuela, they just deport them (for visa violations). Chavez is sooooo evil...

Guantanamo is an AMAZING US violation of everything the US system stands for. How can the people there not have the rights of either the US or Cuba ?

You are correct that Chavez is not taking an evil approach, more-so one of, get them out, before more attention is drawn. This approach will only create another avenue for their work to be reported, and Chavez to deal with that accusation. He's less evil, than simple.

what is the BETTER FOR ALL part of socialism?

why is it bad to protect the right to vote for citizens?

why do we want Obama to spread our wealth to those who have not earned it?

i have worked for nearly 40 years, dependably- and made doing the job a priority all my life-
and serving on town boards for free.

why is it better to take money from me to give away as others decide?

I_need_a_beer wrote:

I see his good.
I see his bad.
You see his good.
YOU, are half blind.

We the majority of Venezuelans are half blind

1) When a coup deposed Chavez for 2 days in 2002, why did HRW's public statements fail to do obvious things like denounce the coup, call on other countries not to recognize the regime, invoke the OAS charter, and (especially since HRW is based in Washington) call for an investigation of US involvement?
2) Very similarly, when a coup deposed Haiti's democratically elected government in 2004, why didn't HRW condemn the coup, call on other countries not to recognize the regime, invoke the OAS charter, and call for an investigation of the US role? Many of these things were done by the community of Caribbean nations (CARICOM). A third of the UN General Assembly called for an investigation into the overthrow of Aristide. Why didn't HRW back them up?
3) Since 2004, why has HRW written about 20 times more about Venezuela than about Haiti despite the fact that the coup in Haiti created a human rights catastrophe in which thousands of political murders were perpetrated and the jails filled with political prisoners? Haiti's judiciary remains stacked with holdovers from the coup installed regime. The lingering impact of the coup is revealed by a recent ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in favor of Yvon Neptune. Haiti has ignored the IACHR order that it dismiss the case against Neptune and pay damages for his illegal two year imprisonment.[3] HRW has not publicly urged the Haitian government to obey the ruling, nor has it applied any public pressure on the government to investigate the disappearance of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, a leading human rights activist.
4) Why did HRW never write a word in support of Father Gerard Jean-Juste, Haiti's most prominent political prisoner after the coup? Even after Amnesty International named him a "prisoner of conscience" and participated in an international campaign to have him released to receive treatment for cancer, HRW said absolutely nothing. Instead HRW has repeatedly objected to law suits brought against Venezuelan "civil society" leaders like Maria Corina Machado, who has never been jailed despite signing the infamous Carmon decree which briefly abolished Venezuelan democracy.
5) Why hasn't HRW called for a full disclosure of US funding of the opposition in Bolivia given the murders recently perpetrated in Pando by anti-government groups? HRW has called on the OAS to investigate the Colombian government's allegations that the Chavez assists the FARC. In contrast, HRW has not urged the US government to cooperate with the Freedom of Information Act requests made by Jeremy Bigwood regarding US activity Bolivia.