translated from Spanish: Human Rights Watch accuses the PC: “It is a party that evidently its leaders do not believe in DDs. HH.”

“How can we be surprised by the attitude of a party like the Chilean Communist Party that celebrates the worst dictatorship on the planet as is North Korea. They send flowers and claim a regime that is likely to be the most repressive regime that has ever existed in contemporary recent history such as North Korea,” Human Rigths Watch executive director José Miguel Vivanco said, commenting on the sayings of the Mayor Recoleta, Daniel Jadue, who criticized the report of Michelle Bachelet, high commissioner for UN HRDs on Venezuela, who reported human rights violations in that country.” To be annoyed and protest at the report of former President Bachelet, High Commissioner of HRD, seems to me to be in the same vein as the basic principles that guide that party and is to put ideology before anything else. Ideology for them, and ideological loyalty, leads them to justify everything, including atrocities, massive violations of HRDs. It’s a party that obviously its leaders don’t believe in HRDs, why we’re telling stories,” he said in an interview with Radio Universe.” They believe in an ideological defense of what their thinking is, their movement and for them that’s what counts, the rest is secondary and there will always be explanations, there will be a context, there will be infamy and denunciations that are unfounded but if you change the color regime that violates HRDs, there if they believe in HRDs. That is, it is he prism, the ideological lens that determines the results of the image, they see what they want to see according to their traditional ideological positions,” he added. On the sayings of Daniel Jadue, Mayor Recoleta, who criticized Bachelet’s report, said that “this leader is consistent with his party’s traditional positions on these matters.” He said that Nicolás Maduro “is a dictator, he leads a dictatorship, he is responsible for all this disaster that has occurred in Venezuela and is affecting the region.” Errors and contrasentency on Northern FrontierIn the face of the migration crisis affecting the Venezuelan people, Vivanco said that the official UN figure of people who have left the country exceeds 4 million people. “This phenomenon is going to continue, it’s a desperate situation. (…) There’s no future there,” he said. On the situation on the northern border, he said that “Chile has every right to regulate its borders and examine the backgrounds of the people who enter, but I believe that – in general – Venezuelans today qualify to enter Chile”. He said that a distinction must be made with political refugees, “if we are in these circumstances the obligation of State is to welcome that family by allowing them entry, to facilitate the application to a political refuge”, differentiating that reality from those fleeing by humanitarian conditions. On The Currency’s decision to require consular visa to Venezuelans, Vivanco was clear: “You cannot demand requirements that are impossible to comply, (…) if they are required for one passport a day, that is impossible to comply. In practice, this formula has found that this is the case, a veiled way of preventing the entry of Venezuelans. Today no Venezuelan has the capacity to produce one passport a day.” He added that “passporting is a matter of doing a check by consular staff in Caracas and these Chancellery officials are in a perfect position to inform La Moneda what requirements can be achieved and what are those that it’s really impossible to get.” It seems to me that it is a mistake to make demands that cannot be met. Besides, in this you have to be consistent. The current government has had an impeccable attitude about leadership and denouncing what is happening in Venezuela, not just from DD’s point of view. Hh. but also the humanitarian crisis. Thus the best evidence, the best argument for facilitating the entry of these Venezuelans in full conformity with national law is The government itself of President Piñera. If the situation is as calamitous as the President and other senior officials describe it, it seems to me that it is a contradiction to seek subterfuge and formulas to make it more difficult for these citizens to enter the country.” It does not mean that Chile should receive them all, but in this area I believe that it would need a regional response, a collective response, as well as uniform, between Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil and Colombia which has the highest number in the regional level of refugees Venezuelans,” he said.

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