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The United Nations has once again confirmed the empire of terror that Venezuela suffers: extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, torture, arbitrary detentions and violence against protesters.

"Atrocious violations", as stated in the first report released today by the International Independent Investigation Mission, commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council.

These are not isolated acts, the report asserts, but crimes that are

coordinated and committed with the "direct knowledge and support" of the military

and high-ranking government officials.

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"The Mission found reasonable grounds to believe that the authorities and security forces

have planned and carried out serious human rights violations since 2014

, some of which - arbitrary executions and the systematic use of torture - constitute crimes against humanity" , underlined Marta Valiñas, president of the Mission.

"President Maduro and the interior and defense ministers were aware of the crimes. They gave orders, coordinated activities and provided resources to execute plans," the report adds.

They are Generals

Néstor Reverol

and Vladimir Padrino López, at the head of the two ministerial portfolios, key soldiers to keep the "son of Chávez" in the Miraflores Palace.

The UN concludes that the scope of the contributions of the three indicated must be "duly investigated by competent judicial authorities that must determine their individual criminal responsibility."

"Maduro and his circle have ordered crimes"

"The report clearly establishes that Nicolás Maduro and his closest circle have ordered crimes against humanity, using the repressive organs of the regime to illegally detain, torture and murder Venezuelans," denounced Tomás Guanipa, ambassador of the interim presidency in Colombia.

"Arbitrary arrests, short-term disappearances and torture were directed against the civilian population as part of a policy to silence opposition to the Maduro government," said Francisco Cox, a member of the Commission.

A "historic document", reacted Juan Guaidó, interim president, that "recounts the drama that Venezuelans go through, the systematic destruction and violation of human rights."

The International Mission

has investigated 223 cases

, 48 of them extensively presented.

She also studied 2,891 others "to corroborate the patterns of rapes and crimes."

The UN report comes at the worst moment for Maduro, precisely when he

tries to legitimize the electoral fraud planned for December

.

Josep Borrell, High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs of the European Union, will announce to the Contact Group tomorrow what his efforts were during the negotiations held by Chavismo and the opposition leader Henrique Capriles, culminating in the release of 50 political prisoners and the pardon for 60 persecuted by the Bolivarian regime.

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