translated from Spanish: Venezuela holds seat on UN HRCouncil

Caracas.- Venezuelan Chancellor Jorge Arreaza on Thursday held his country’s seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite the campaign he said led the United States to prevent it.” It is a new victory of Bolivarian peace diplomacy (…) we are facing a victory that must be measured, measured over the course of the next few days but which today we dare to describe as historic,” Arreaza told reporters from the headquarters of the Venezuelan chancellery in Caracas.

The head of Venezuelan diplomacy said that Nicolas Maduro’s government faced a “fierce, brutal campaign of the US and its satellite countries” alongside some human rights NGOs “to prevent Venezuela from being elected.” He said that the nomination of Costa Rica to the Council was planned by these countries opposethe so-called Bolivarian revolution to prevent Venezuela from entering, although the South American nation beat the Central American in the vote with 105 votes to 96.” Serving these facts as lessons for the pride and arrogance of unilateralism, multilateralism has given it a great response,” Arreaza continued after ensuring that senior U.S. officials sent “desperate emails” to some countries to some countries to that did not support Venezuela in the vote.

Arreza (d). / EFE.

For Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other NGOs, Venezuela was not eligible to be a member of the DD Council. Hh. Maduro’s government’s record in this area. In recent hours, Brazil, Chile, and the U.S., among others, had publicly called for a halt to Venezuela’s candidacy, which nevertheless ended up gaining the necessary support at the UN General Assembly. Un high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, presented this year a critical report on the situation in Venezuela.The text includes cases of torture and mistreatment of people arbitrarily deprived of their liberty, in particular military, and urges the disbanding the Special Actions Force (FAES), a police force accused of many of these abuses.

Original source in Spanish