Prova stressed that the crisis – supported after the presidential ones of 2024 and the post -election repression – has had “a severe impact on the life and rights of millions of Venezuelans and also in the stability of the region”
The Venezuelan Human Rights Education Program (PROPERA) spoke before the recent actions by the administration of Nicolás Maduro, including the creation of areas of comprehensive defense throughout the country, as well as the military deployment of the United States in the South Caribbean under the argument of the fight against drugs.
Through A statementThe organization pointed out that “in the conversations, narratives and actions” of the US and Venezuela there are “two great absent: the need to re-democratize the country and the indeclinable obligation to respect international law and guarantee human rights at all times and without any excuse.”
On US attacks on “narcolachas”, which have left at least 17 dead, Prova stressed that these actions “constitute clear violations and undermine a field of right in which the use of lethal force against civilians” can be justified indiscriminately. “
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The Oenegé considers that the excessive use of force in these operations can be described as extrajudicial executions, while criticizing the lack of a clear response of international instances to these facts.
Regarding the Venezuelan situation, Prova stressed that the crisis – supported after the presidential ones of 2024 and the post -election repression – has had “a severe impact on the life and rights of millions of Venezuelans and also in the stability of the region.”
The scenario, they said, has worsened with the response of Chavism to the deployment of the US under the excuse of the “fight against terrorism of the right.” They reported an increase in forced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, incommunication and transfers from political prisoners to common prisons.
Prova said that no circumstance justifies the ignorance of Human Rights and international law.
«Leaving the free field for the violation of human rights is not, nor should it be, option (…) We exhort all the actors of national life to continue next to a people resolved to live with dignity and to live in the truth; A people who peacefully decided their political destiny, ”they have assured.
On the other hand, Prova reiterated its rejection of the recent creation of the Integral Defense Areas (ADI) in the 335 municipalities of the country. The organization points out that this is another step to the “total militarization” of Venezuelan society and the commission of greater abuse against the population, especially in those communities that demonstrated against the presidential results.
“It is concerned that at this juncture there will be a considerable increase in spending related to military activity, sacrificing the resources that should be destined for investment to meet high levels of poverty and the crisis of public services, thereby increasing the calamities of the population,” they said.
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against 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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