• UE.Borrell asks for realism in Venezuela: "If Maduro does not want to leave, divinity is not fixed with invocations"

Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, updated her report on Venezuela this morning in Geneva, a new realism bath around what is happening in the oil country. The former socialist president of Chile underlines how the special police forces of Nicolás Maduro (FAES) continue to commit "extrajudicial executions mainly against young men in slums" and also how Chavism continues the persecution against the democratic Parliament.

Hunting and capture that has been redoubled in recent hours, with four violations of parliamentary immunity and two search and capture orders against deputies, with which the Bolivarian revolution intends to snatch the presidency of the National Assembly (AN) from Juan Guaidó, which is voted on January 5 at the Legislative Palace of Caracas.

"I am concerned about the lifting of the immunity of five opposition deputies, raising the total to 30 deprived of immunity as well as acts of harassment against their representatives, including the president of the AN, Juan Guaidó," said the High Commissioner, who He advanced his fear because 2020 will be an election year (parliamentary elections) that would be reached with disqualifications.

Bachelet insisted on the same mantra in the March report, in which he discovered the massive violation of human rights suffered in Venezuela. The UN official urged Maduro again to unconditionally release all persons detained for political reasons, including the military, and to grant full freedom to Deputy Juan Requesens. This First Justice parliamentarian is serving 500 days in prison , after being illegally arrested and tortured. These days his trial is celebrated, full of forced arbitrariness from the revolutionary power.

"My office has documented 118 cases of persons deprived of liberty that require an urgent response for health reasons, judicial delays, lack of execution of release orders or lack of release for compliance with sentences," said the High Commissioner. According to the Criminal Forum, the dungeons of the revolution today have 390 political prisoners, a figure also recognized by the Organization of American States (OAS).

For human rights officers working on the ground in Venezuela, the government's calls to arm the militiamen (three million according to Maduro) and their intention to reform the law to include them in the Armed Forces as a body of civilians have not gone unnoticed. . The Bolivarian militia is made up of supporters of Chavismo, from members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to members of the revolutionary communes.

Indigenous Massacre

The massacre in November in the indigenous community of Ikabarú, "where eight people were killed with firearms, including a sergeant of the Bolivarian National Guard, an indigenous pemón and a teenager," Bachelet has raised criticism. Ikabarú is located in the heart of the Mining Arc, where armed groups proliferate, including the Colombian guerrillas. There, the plundering is lived without limits as it is an area rich in gold deposits. The revolution has set up a massive operation to extract and sell this gold abroad to circumvent the sanctions imposed by the United States.

Beyond the politics and violence that surrounds it, the office of the High Commissioner has documented the social and economic collapse of a country that according to its figures and has abandoned more than 4.7 million people . Its projection is that at the end of 2020 there will be 6.5 million who have been forced to flee the country, at a rate of between 4,000 and 5,000 per day , according to experts.

"Caritas reported that in the poorest parishes of 19 states, 11.9% of boys and girls show signs of acute malnutrition and that 32.6% are stunted. 48.5% of pregnant women treated have nutritional deficiencies, "continued Bachelet.

The officers of the High Commissioner were able to travel to Zulia, border with Colombia and the second most populous state in the country, where they found "the very long lines to buy fuel and the prolonged and repeated power cuts, which also affect the water supply."

Despite attempts by the revolutionary propaganda to prove otherwise, the 375% increase in the minimum wage has not altered the loss of Venezuelan purchasing power, whose salary "currently only covers 3.5% of the basic basket."

Jorge Valero, representative of the revolution in Geneva, once again dismissed Bachelet's document and assured that in his country there is full respect for human rights.

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