Tortures and executions, the Bachelet report which strips Chavez

The UN Human Rights Commissioner presented in Geneva his report gathered during the visit of a technical team

CARACAS – "I am deeply concerned by the magnitude and seriousness of the impact on the human rights of the

current crisis in Venezuela,

which is also a disturbing destabilizing factor in the region. "Detail in the details, piecemeal,

Michelle Bachelet,

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, yesterday exposed the extent of the damage caused by the Bolivarian Revolution to the oil country.

Torture, executions, lies on the state of health, failure of health, collapse of public services and recognition of mbad emigration, detailed, one by one, in the preliminary report of Bachelet, until the end of the year. here criticized for his silence. "My office documented numerous human rights violations and abuses committed by pro-government security forces and armed groups," said the Chilean president, referring clearly to the famous Chavist paramilitary groups. From the excessive use of force to torture and ill-treatment, including killings, arbitrary detentions, threats and intimidation, this is part of the manual on terrorism put into practice by the revolution. .

"We continue to investigate reports of possible extrajudicial executions by security forces, and in 2018 FAES (Special Police Force) reportedly killed at least 205 people and 37 others were reportedly killed. January 2019 in Caracas. "Bachelet added, echoing the repression that surrounded the military uprising in Cotiza and the demonstrations that accompanied the swearing-in of

Juan Guaidó

as president in charge.

The smoke screens launched by the government did not deceive the high commissioner: "The murders proceed according to the same pattern: during the illegal searches of the FAES, they then announced the death following an armed confrontation, although witnesses have reported that the victims were disarmed, living in poor neighborhoods and participating in anti-government demonstrations, and I am particularly concerned by reports that such operations would constitute a form of retaliation and intimidation. "

The strength of these accusations only multiplied a few hours later, when Lieutenant Ronald Dugarte fled Venezuela and presented at the OAS headquarters in Washington several videos in which the rebel captain Juan Carlos Caguaripano refused to having breakfast because he was urinating blood and no doctor came to see him. Another colonel appears kneeling in the cell, hands tied behind his back and blindfolded. And so a succession of impressive images, which confirm the denunciations of human rights organizations.

Dressed in his military uniform, Dugarte reported that prisoners are tortured with electricity, beaten in vital areas, injected unknown substances and asphyxiated them with plastic bags. This is the twentieth-century nightmare in the Southern Cone that has been revived in one of the few countries in the region to have retained the values ​​of democracy when the rest of the nations have undergone the badault dictators.

Bachelet maintains a commission in Venezuela on the grounds that not only his previous reports have been certified, but also conflicted with what his boss calls "the reduction of the democratic space, especially the ongoing criminalization of peaceful and violent protests. of dissent ". Several doctors who informed the delegation of the hospital's disability were persecuted or even attacked by the paramilitaries. "It is important that my team can access without hindrance, without retribution to anyone who has met or attempted to meet with him," said a UN official.

Beyond human rights violations, the radiography exposed by Bachelet betrays part of the Venezuelan tragedy: deterioration of the health system, lack of water, natural gas, food crisis, collapse of transport in common and hyperinflation "generate extreme economic conditions that have provoked thousands of social protests" and the "flight" of more than three million people.

Bachelet believes that the government's efforts to ignore what is happening in the country have exacerbated the consequences, a phrase that makes it very clear that he does not buy the revolutionary narrative of "the economic war of the country." ;empire".