Primero Justicia (PJ) leader, Julio Borges believes that the regional elections on November 23 will create a counterweight of new leadership and political renewal that will see the beginning of the end of President Chavez' mandate in 2012. Borges says the opposition will definitely become a viable alternative. Venezuelans, Borges maintains, have not bought into supposed assassination attempts and have rejected other national executive decisions. Despite Borges' optimism, the opposition has not reached full unity and there are still decisions to be made regarding candidacies in Caracas Libertador municipality, Bolivar State and Yaracuy. Former Merida State Governor, William Davila boastfully claims that he is 14 points ahead of the government candidate. Davila made the statement as the electoral campaign officially kicked off on Monday but insists it is not a question of being triumphalist. His main aim at the moment, he argues, is to set up mechanisms to protect his votes. The candidate is a member of Accion Democratica (AD) and has a reputation for bluffing and is given to over- exaggeration.
The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CTV) has issued a communique calling on political actors to assume a real democratic attitude that will allow people to express themselves freely in regional elections next November. Archbishop of Caracas, Monsignor Jorge Urosa Savino says the bishops would like to see the electoral campaign develop in an atmosphere of calm where people's rights and the Constitution are respected and plurality allowed to flourish. Commenting on the packet of 26 laws promulgated by President Chavez, Urosa Savino reveals that the bishops are concerned about the Statist character of the laws, which would appear to contradict the Constitution, especially regarding the right to use assets and undertake economic activities that one thinks convenient.
Venezuelan Ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS) Roy Chaderton has condemned the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) defending human rights, accusing them of double standards. Chaderton was replying to what he calls the show put on by the Washington-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Venezuela. The HRW press conference and report against Venezuela, the diplomat argues, comes just a few months before the electoral process exposing the exercise as politically motivated and far removed from defense of human rights.
Ambassador Chaderton has also rejected a declaration from the Inter American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC) condemning the recent expulsion of two HRW directors from Venezuela. Referring to the mushrooming of human rights NGOs, Chaderton dismisses many of them as "factories of human rights defenders" and " robots," all with excellent connections and all belonging to the "American University." The diplomat complains that they do not publish reports on the violation of human rights concerning racial discrimination, poverty and environment on the part of the big corporations. The Ambassador highlights the IAHRC's failure to stand out against the massacre of El Alto during the government of Bolivian President, Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada. Chaderton adds that although some NGOs are not welcome in Venezuelan, he still invites people to visit his country to see for themselves the state of democracy.
Attending the VII Social Debt summit in Caracas, Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre of Research on Globalization has told members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) that the USA wants to divide up Latin America to ensure control of natural resources such as gas, oil and water. The so-called Balkanization has already been set up in several countries. Recalling a bit of recent history, the researcher says the USA in the 90s linked up with the Kosovo Liberation Army, which had a serious record of crime and narco-trafficking. In Haiti, the military coup was implemented by US Ambassador, James Foley. According to Chossudovsky, assessors from Kosovo arrived in Haiti to help train police officials turning the Haitian police into a paramilitary organization. The visitor claims that the US plan for Venezuela is not territorial division but total destabilization. In some countries, he states, they want to weaken national sovereignty and end the model of the Nation-State. Covert operations in the Middle East and Latin America are being run by John Negroponte, US Sub-secretary of State.
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice has criticized that the 230-page report on human rights in Venezuela presented by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) as containing a series of inaccuracies. TSJ president, Luisa Estela Morales has replied to charges that the TSJ has lost its autonomy and integrity, insisting that the institution is completely independent. The report, Morales points out, has not undertaken its research carefully and seriously. Another charge she rejects is that magistrates are political appointees. The TSJ law, she confirms, guarantees transparency in the selection of magistrates and like in other countries, magistrates are appointed by executive and legislative powers.
Patrick J. O'Donoghue
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