Una conversación con Ligia Bolívar, del Centro de Derechos Humanos de la UCAB, sobre la interpelación a Venezuela en el Comité contra la Tortura (ONU). El Hangout político es un espacio conducido por los periodistas y activistas @Naky Soto y @LuisCarlos Díaz desde Venezuela.
Achieving Justice Under International Law - Venezuela case study: challenges and opportunities
Hola amigos de la colonia de Venezuela residente en Boston y Massachusetts.
Es de gran agrado y de gran honor para mi invitarlos al panel
académico que llevaremos a cabo en el Boston College sobre el caso
Venezuela.
Abajo encontraran la información del panel, locación, dia y hora, tema e information relevante al tema del panel. Sairam participara del panel desde Caracas via Skype.
Abajo encontraran la información del panel, locación, dia y hora, tema e information relevante al tema del panel. Sairam participara del panel desde Caracas via Skype.
El panel es abierto no solo a la comunidad académica del Boston
College, sino a otras universidades, centros de investigación, empresas,
centros de pensamiento, etc. No duden en compartir la información del
panel con sus colegas del trabajo, allegados, amigos y familiares.
Cualquier información adicional no duden en enviarme un email, o llamarme a mi celular: 8572375593.
Aprovecho la oportunidad para compartir con ustedes una pieza
editorial que escribí sobre el caso Venezuela para el Fletcher Forum of
Global Affairs (online edition).
Con un cordial y atento saludo,
Juan Carlos Portilla
Visiting Scholar
Boston College Law School
885 Centre Street
Newton, MA 02459
Email: juan.portilla@bc.edu
BCTelephone: (617)552-4019
BCFax: (617)5522889
Mobil: 8572375593
Boston Globe Editorial: Crackdown presents challenge to Citizens Energy, Joe Kennedy II
A raíz de la visita de Lilian Tintori, el Boston Globe publicó hoy un editorial muy importante sobre la situación en Venezuela y la conexión con Citizen Energy.
A continuación presentamos un extracto del texto:
Para leer el texto completo del editorial, hacer clic aquí." ... Citizens Energy has provided a winter lifeline to more than 1.8 million people. If it gave up its deal with Venezuela, many of those families would face far higher heating costs. But American interests aren’t the only ones at issue. In López’s Harvard award acceptance letter, he urged Americans to speak up about what’s happening in his country: “You have an opportunity to send a far different message: that the weight of the global community is on the side of human rights and dignity.”
Es la primera vez que el Globe se pronuncia de una manera tan contundente. ¡Estimados residentes de Nueva Inglaterra hay que difundir el mensaje! Accedan a la página online del Globe y escriban sus comentarios, o mejor aun, envíen una carta al editor felicitando al Globe y agradeciendo la publicación del editorial. Envíen una carta de apoyo a letter@globe.com o fax: 617-929-2098.
Amnesty International: More protesters detained, at risk of torture in Venezuela
Further information on UA: 119/14 Index: AMR 53/014/2014 Venezuela Date: 15 May 2014
URGENT ACTION
On 14 May security forces in Caracas detained at least 100 people
involved in ongoing anti-government demonstrations. They are at risk of
torture or other ill-treatment and their right to due process is at
risk.
According to reports, on 14 May, at least 100
people including some minors, were detained by Venezuelan National Guard
in Chacao municipality, east of the capital Caracas, with excessive use
of force. Some of them have been released after few hours, including
all the minors. They were detained while taking part in a student
demonstration organised to protest against the detention of 243 people
between 7 and 8 May. Student demonstration was held in front of the
UNDP’s office
National Guards attacked media workers who were
covering the protest. According to press reports, four photographers
were beaten and three journalist assaulted, some of them present
injuries by rubber pellets. The Ministry of Tourism, adjacent to the
UNDP’s offices was reportedly attacked with stones and Molotov cocktails
during the demonstration. A member of the National Guard was injured
when he was accidently hit by one of the buses that was carrying some of
the detainees into custody.
In the context of the ongoing protests in
Venezuela, Amnesty International has received dozens of complaints about
torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees by
members of the security forces, at the time of detention, during
transfer and at detention centres. The detainees’ safety and right to
due process are at grave risk.
An evening with Venezuelan human rights activists Alfredo Romero and Marino Alvarado
Se realizará un foro con estudiantes y público en general para discutir la situación de las violaciones de los Derechos Humanos en Venezuela. Invitado especial Afredo Romero, director de Foro Penal Venezolano y Marino Alvarado, coordinador del Programa Venezolano de Educación-Acción en Derechos Humanos (Provea) via Internet desde Venezuela.
El país necesita ojos y oídos en todo el mundo para demandar nuestros derechos primordiales, Los derechos humanos. Serviremos de embajadores a nuestro país y decir la verdad acerca de los hechos que han conducido a detenidos, heridos y muertos en el último més en Venezuela y tras el silencio oficial.
Día: Miércoles
Fecha: 2 de Abril
Hora: 6 pm
Lugar:
77 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139, Auditorio Edificio 6- Salón 120, Al
final de corredor infinito, pasando la cúpula central de MIT.
Making sense of Venezuela's situation
A panel of eight experts will review the recent economic, social
and political evolution of Venezuela and conduct an open and interactive
debate moderated by Leonardo Vivas, creator of the
Latin America Initiative at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy,
Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
The recent conflicts in Venezuela began with a student’s protest and escalated to a national crisis which have now made international news. The depth of the crisis in Venezuela is one that reveals the economic and political failures of one of the most powerful economies in Latin America. Presently, over 2,000 human rights violations have been reported including rape and physical abuse.
Since the protests began on February 12th, there have been over 20 deaths during street clashes attributed to the Bolivarian National Guard, over 300 protestors wounded with bullets, and more than 2000 detainees with 44 jailed activists. The violations continue to rise. Political opponents are being persecuted and jailed while worsening shortages of food and medicines continue. This crisis has not been televised on Venezuelan TV. Newspapers and radio stations have been penalized for their reporting, and newsprint shortages are dire.
The recent conflicts in Venezuela began with a student’s protest and escalated to a national crisis which have now made international news. The depth of the crisis in Venezuela is one that reveals the economic and political failures of one of the most powerful economies in Latin America. Presently, over 2,000 human rights violations have been reported including rape and physical abuse.
Since the protests began on February 12th, there have been over 20 deaths during street clashes attributed to the Bolivarian National Guard, over 300 protestors wounded with bullets, and more than 2000 detainees with 44 jailed activists. The violations continue to rise. Political opponents are being persecuted and jailed while worsening shortages of food and medicines continue. This crisis has not been televised on Venezuelan TV. Newspapers and radio stations have been penalized for their reporting, and newsprint shortages are dire.
Organizers: Roberto Rigobón (rigobon@mit.edu) and Irene Bosch member of Venered
Time: 6 PM to 9 PM
Date: Wednesday March 12th
Place: 10-250 Auditorium at 77 Mass. Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Directions: http://whereis.mit.edu
Urgent action on situation of human rights in Venezuela
Member organizations of Foro por la Vida, together with other Venezuelan organizations, in light of serious violations of human rights in Venezuela.
We, the undersigned organizations, given the worsening of the
Venezuelan situation resulting from violence, misinformation, arbitrary
detentions and other major violations of human rights that have occurred
in the month of February 2014 make a call for urgent action in support
of the observance of human rights, justice and peace in Venezuela.
The events taking place in Venezuela showcase the deterioration of
public institutions to effectively arbitrate the diversity of political
positions that exist in the country. In light of this situation it is
important that various sectors of the national and international
community take a stand to challenge human rights violations, calling for
an independent investigation, requesting the cessation of repression
and the opening of genuine dialogue.
Criminalization of protests
Students and other social sectors of Venezuelan society have convened
and conducted peaceful demonstrations throughout the month of February.
Systematically, high-ranking public officials have disqualified these
mobilizations and demonized sectors participating in them.
Disqualifying speeches are frequently featured in the National System
of Public Media or through mandatory radio and television broadcasts.
Acts of vandalism and street closures that have involved a minority of
protesters —rejected by the organizers and broad sectors of Venezuelan
society— are overexposed in such broadcasts. Thus, because some
participants incur in violent acts, all participants and organizers of
peaceful demonstrations have been disqualified as violent, as a
justification for the authorities to widespread repressive responses.
Manifiesto por los derechos humanos y el diálogo social
El movimiento sindical y gremial autónomo y clasista y las organizaciones sociales, condenan
y rechazan el uso inhumano e inconstitucional de los Cuerpos de
Seguridad del Estado y de grupos paramilitares para reprimir las
legítimas protestas estudiantiles. Se han utilizado armas de fuego contra manifestantes indefensos,
con el terrible saldo de 6 muertos, decenas de heridos y más de 300
presos, algunos de los cuales han denunciado que fueron sometidos a
torturas infamantes.
Los
trabajadores sabemos que las reivindicaciones del movimiento
estudiantil expresan el sentir de la mayoría del pueblo venezolano,
quienes a diario están sometidos a la inseguridad, al asalto, a una
muerte violenta, al deterioro creciente del poder adquisitivo de sus
ingresos, a la escasez de productos básicos, al desabastecimiento
generalizado y la precariedad de los más elementales servicios
públicos.
La
protesta estudiantil es la respuesta a una acción gubernamental errada,
que ha empobrecido a la mayoría y enriquecido a unos pocos. Todos
sufrimos a diario, las consecuencias de una política económica que ha
despilfarrado los cuantiosos recursos derivados de los altos precios del
petróleo. El movimiento sindical y gremial, en todas sus versiones tiene varios años manifestándose en contra de tal política. Hemos
insistido en que para construir una economía sana y autosostenida es
necesaria la inversión productiva, tanto pública como privada. Por
no haber procedido de esa manera las consecuencias están a la vista:
estamos frente a la más grave escasez de alimentos básicos de la
historia nacional y padecemos una inflación que es de las más altas del
planeta.
#LaSalida
La siguiente rueda de prensa, convocada por Maria Corina Mchado, Leopoldo López, estudiantes, sindicalistas y representantes de la sociedad civil el 23 de Enero de 2014, ha sido prácticamente ignorada por la mayoría de los medios de comunicación del país.
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