Peace Laboratory pointed out that a “precondition” for the beginning of a dialogue or transition is the existence of “guarantees so that Venezuelans can speak, associate and demonstrate without fear, conditions that do not currently exist.”
The Peace Laboratory organization assured this Monday that the new commission “for peace”, created by Delcy Rodríguez, or similar spaces for participation will not be real if the structural causes of the repression and criminalization of the civil and political rights of Venezuelans are maintained.
Last Friday the 23rd, Delcy Rodríguez proposed “a true political dialogue”, which includes “coinciding” and “divergent” political sectors, for which she created a “commission for peace and coexistence” made up of deputies, analysts, former ministers and other social actors.
Peace Laboratory pointed out, in a statementthat a “precondition” for the beginning of a dialogue or transition is the existence of “guarantees so that Venezuelans can speak, associate and demonstrate without fear, conditions that do not currently exist.”
«The necessary intervention of the population does not begin, end or end in any initiative promoted by the same authorities that have systematically violated the Magna Carta and human rights. The participation of Venezuelans in any space will only be possible if they can do so, without any type of fear or coercion, through the associations and unions that represent them and that today have been neutralized by repression and persecution,” the NGO stated.
Likewise, it was highlighted that these guarantees include the full release of all political prisoners, the suspension of criminal cases for those released or under alternative measures; guarantees for the return of exiles for political reasons; the suspension of the State of Foreign Commotion decree; respect for the rights of freedom of association and assembly, expression and information and peaceful demonstration.
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They also noted the suspension of media blockades, the removal from positions of senior police and military officials responsible for serious human rights violations, including the Prosecutor and the Ombudsman; as well as the legal restitution of confiscated political parties.
Peace Laboratory indicated that this is “the ninth initiative” of dialogue proposed by Chavismo. These initiatives, the NGO highlighted, “have served in the past to delay authoritarianism and divide democratic forces. It remains to be seen whether the announced Commission will be a new cycle of simulation or will pave the way for the restitution of democracy and human rights.
The organization reiterated that after January 3, an opportunity was opened that “must be taken advantage of by society to rebuild and strengthen its unions and natural associations, overcoming the imposed structural fear and disseminating its own demands to influence the current course of events.”
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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