Human Rights Violations In Venezuela

When looking at elements outside the country, the United Nations(UN) and the American Convention on Human Rights(IAHCR) have also gotten involved to some extent. The UN is still debating whether to get involved in this issue or to just continue to watch it play out. There have been some reports made by the High Commissioner that include recommendations for the Venezuelan government to try and prevent the country from breaking down more. However, as mentioned by Jon Western and Joshua S. Goldstein

many voices? Venezuela should be a democratic country with freedom of expression as its constitution states. The government should not violate the law by preventing the media from announcing news that all citizens and the rest of the world need to know regarding to what is happening in Venezuela everyday. It is commonly known that all citizens should have the

Venezuelan government under President Chávez and the government under President Maduro. The USA have repeatedly imposed sanctions on Venezuela, the most pivotal of which was instituted on July 31 as a reaction to the election of the National Constituent Assembly. The Trump administration prevents all American citizens and companies from having business with Venezuela and has frozen Maduro’s assets that are under US jurisdiction. The US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster explained that the election

could be perceived all humans have rights, which are protected and respected by all governments regardless of ideology. For all of those who see things beyond the walls of politics, it is clear that for the majority of the world’s population their reality implies otherwise. While every violation of civil rights and liberties should be addressed, given my personal experience, I consider the violation of 12th and 13th article of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights the most important

However, human rights cannot be seen as universal due to the reluctance of many non-western countries to acknowledge an inconvertible, and permanently valid set of human rights. This is due to a number of reasons, each of which are different depending on the country in questions. One of these reasons is due to the vast cultural differences between these countries, and western countries. These are countries that see human rights a threat to their very identity, or view their “traditional values” as

in poorly managed government plans, nowadays Venezuela is facing “drastic shortages of food, medicine, electricity and other necessities are causing small riots.” (McCarthy, 2016). The International Monetary

Venezuela, the neighbor of Colombia is dealing with food insecurity because Hugo Chavez failed to protect the people of Venezuela the right to have food. I chose this topic because I myself am Colombian and I hate seeing my neighboring country suffer from food insecurity. The scholarly article, The Right to Food under Hugo Chavez, that I will be using for this research paper was found in the FAU libraries using the SocINDEX database. The article is about how Hugo Chavez failed to protect Venezuelan’s

Rough Draft: Venezuela is a country located in the northern area of South America that’s national language is Spanish. It is a very complex and interesting country with many important events in the past as well as some current events that have made headlines. Venezuela has been struggling with development for a long time and it has a landscape that can sometimes make it quite hard to build roads and tracks, thus hindering the forward progress of the nation. Venezuela is a democratic country with

kidnapped, robbed or imprisoned, it is very easy to point fingers when citizens are asked why their lives are the way they are. In Venezuela, all of these things happen, and everyone has the same answer when they are asked that question: “Thanks to the government”. According to a Washington Post article published in 2009, there are about 40 political prisoners in Venezuela. These prisoners vary from students who protested in marches to mid-aged men who criticized the government of Hugo Chavez. But they

officials, immigration court of Miami Florida and Department of Justice, United States of America, to expose my current immigration status and briefly detail them facts and verbal, psychological and physical abuse I suffered in my country Venezuela. In Venezuela I worked as an analyst of health services in the Organization Banesco Insurance where I worked since 2011. Similarly, I worked with my husband as daily workers in his small business willingness named “ “Rivalen” only by in which our equipment