A report assures that Venezuela is still in chaos and that human rights violations continue

The situation in Venezuela continues to be chaotic, human rights violations and the humanitarian crisis continuedespite the attempts of the Venezuelan state to try to show an image of “normalization” of the situation, a human rights organization denounced this Wednesday at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington.

The CASLA institute presented its 2022 annual report to the OAS this Wednesday in which documented 19 cases of victims subjected to crimes established by the Rome Statute, i.e. crimes against humanity, within the framework of the “systematic repression that the authorities of the Venezuelan state carry out for political reasons”.

These crimes, the report said, “are engaged by security bodies such as DGCIM and SEBINwith the participation of high-ranking members of the Armed Forces” of the Nicolas Maduro regime.

“At least two victims said they were tortured simultaneously or in turns.” The report also documents “physical, psychological and over-the-counter torture, as well as sexual violence and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Victims who have been subjected to extreme suffering unimaginable for human beings and victims who continue to be incarcerated, subjected to daily psychological torture”.

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They speak of “detachment of fingernails and toenails, the extraction with forceps or the breaking of pieces of teeth, cuts on the soles of the feet with knives, electric shocks” and other torments.

In addition, the report exclusively provides the “DGCIM Operations Manual”, which is the procedure book of that intelligence agency to carry out its illegal operations, which may be the evidence of the organization to commit crimes against humanity, what for which that Maduro was prosecuted in the International Criminal Court.

This Handbook “clearly describes” how civil society and members of the opposition I am “the enemy within to be defeated” and how espionage systems were installed to monitor citizens and approval levels of key operational measures, for which Maduro is primarily responsible.

In recent times, the Maduro regime, which has been systematically denounced for human rights violations and is subject to a series of sanctions by the United States and other countries, has he tried to soften his international image saying the humanitarian situation in his country had been eased as inflation had dropped (from about 1,000% a year to 200%), denying abuses and corruption.

President Alberto Fernandez accompanied him in this controversial vision when he recounted the situation in Venezuela “it was loosening up” and trying to re-establish diplomatic relationswhich earned him strong criticism from the opposition and human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch, which highlighted that the International Criminal Court has an ongoing investigation into possible crimes against humanity committed by the Maduro regime.

“The situation in Venezuela continues to be chaotic, the humanitarian crisis continues despite the attempts made by the Venezuelan state to try to normalize the situation, showing the world an unreal image of prosperity and prosperity, when poverty reaches 81.5% of the population that does not have enough to cover the basic food basket, and 53.3% live in conditions of extreme poverty, without being able to obtain basic food”, reads the report.

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They add that a United Nations report revealed that “nearly 6.5 million people suffer from hunger in Venezuela and of 4.1% of children under 5 years They suffer from acute malnutrition.

And they warn that “in the meantime, in Caracas and in other cities there is an ostentatious and vulgar bubble, with areas full of luxury restaurants, bodegones, boutiques and discos, expensive and sports cars, latest-model cars and armored vehicles that arrive in fleets, especially for government use and for the high ranks of the Armed Forces,” he points out

“This doesn’t fit with the poverty reflected in the cordons of misery in neighborhoods and other cities in the interior of the country, where people live with total or partial absence of the state, abandoned, without security, in long queues for buy several liters of petrol”, he concludes.

They report that too ‘”the mass exodus continues” and that “subversive groups like the FARC and the ELN” and the paramilitaries have taken possession of territories inside the country where kidnappings and clashes occur, forcing the displacement of the population.