By Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com, Aug 31st 2011
Reports written by organisations like Crisis Group and Human Rights Watch are not aimed at helping the Venezuelan people, but rather are part of the US’s attempt to intervene in and disrupt the Bolivarian revolution.
By Edward Ellis and Eva Golinger - Correo del Orinoco International, Feb 13th 2011
Last week, Venezuelan authorities announced their intention to investigate some 1,600 cases of disappearances, executions, and other human rights violations that took place at the hands of the nation’s security forces during the years 1958 – 1998, a period known in the country as the Fourth Republic.
By Edward Ellis - Correo del Orinoco International, Jan 28th 2011
The US-based NGO, Human Rights Watch, released its annual “World Report” last week, using the opportunity to once again take aim at the Venezuelan government for what it considers to be the country’s “precarious human rights situation”.
By Joe Emersberger - Venezuelanalysis.com, May 6th 2010
In December of 2009, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) put out a 300-page report entitled “Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela” that re-hashes thoroughly debunked claims and contradicts itself by imposing a double standard on the Venezuelan government.
By Steve Rendall and Daniel Ward and Tess Hall - FAIR, Feb 3rd 2009
Rather than independently and critically assessing the Colombian and
Venezuelan records, major corporate newspaper editors, to one degree or
another, have subordinated crucial human rights questions to what they
see as the U.S.’s interests in the region.
By Miguel Tinker-Salas, Gregory Wilpert, Greg Grandin, Jan 13th 2009
Tinker-Salas, Wilpert, and Grandin respond to Human Rights Watch Executive Director Roth, stating that his response to the Open Letter stonewalls and ignores important criticisms about HRW's report on Venezuela.
By Kenneth Roth - Human Rights Watch, Jan 13th 2009
Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, responds to and dismisses the open letter signed by over 100 Latin America experts and academics, which criticized a recent HRW report on Venezuela.
A Human Rights Watch
report on alleged setbacks in human rights in Venezuela since President
Hugo Chávez first took office 10 years ago has been severely questioned
by 118 academics from the United States and several other countries.
In
an open letter to the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch, over
100 experts on Latin America criticized the organization's recent
report on Venezuela, A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela,
saying that it "does not meet even the most minimal standards of
scholarship, impartiality, accuracy, or credibility."
By Gregory Wilpert - Venezuelanalysis.com, Oct 17th 2008
The September 18, 2008 Human Rights Watch report, “A Decade Under
Chavez,” raises a few problems with regard to the protection of
political rights in Venezuela, but the few places where it is on target
are almost completely drowned in a sea of de-contextualization,
trumped-up accusations, and a clear and obvious bias in favor of the
opposition and against the government.
