translated from Spanish: Venezuelan government: Bachelet report is full of “mistakes”

The Venezuelan government accused UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, of presenting a report full of “mistakes,” after a paper was released on Thursday that the “excessive use of the “by state security agents.
“Countless inaccuracies, errors, decontextualizations and false assertions by OHCHR, the product of inadequate use of available sources,” the Venezuelan government’s response, which adds up to 70 “observations,” read out. The government of The member Nicolas Maduro requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner to “take the necessary measures to correct the errors of the report” which documented “cases of extrajudicial executions carried out by security forces” in poor neighborhoods.
Maduro will take the report’s recommendations with ‘full seriousness’
The questions come after Maduro pledged to “take the “suggestions, recommendations and proposals” of the commissioner with all seriousness after receiving it at Miraflores’ palace during her visit to Venezuela between 19 and 21 June last.
According to the UN conclusions, “there are reasonable grounds to believe that many of these deaths constitute extrajudicial executions by security forces, in particular FAES.”
In the face of the situation, Bachelet called for the dissolution of the Special Forces (FAES), to which he blames in particular most of the 5,287 extrajudicial deaths, allegedly due to “resistance to authority”, during police operations in 2018.
“Between 1 January and 19 May this year, another 1,569 people were killed, according to government statistics. Other sources suggest that the figures could be much higher,” Bachelet said in the text, based on information collected between January 2018 and May 2019.
Request for permanent office of OHCHR in Venezuela
Bachelet added that “pro-government civilian armed groups known as collectives have contributed to the deterioration of the situation by imposing social control and helping to suppress demonstrations.”
In addition to the dissolution of the FAES and the “collectives”, Bachelet – who insisted on a permanent OHCHR office in the oil country – recommended the creation of “an impartial and independent national mechanism” to analyse these executions Extrajudicial.
Maduro’s government, under whose management Venezuela fell into the worst crisis in its recent history, also dismissed the UN’s claims about the precariousness of the health system and the difficulties of access to food.
The High Commissioner called on the Socialist government to take “all necessary measures to ensure the availability and accessibility of food, water, essential medicines and health care services.”

Original source in Spanish