https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/11/venezuela-crisis-un-calls-for-probe-into-human-rights-violations
This article discusses differing views of the human rights crisis in Venezuela. UN representative Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein claims that the Venezuelan government has been using human rights as a bargaining chip, suppressing democracy, and punishing dissenters with sexual violence, torture, and other horrors. In turn, Venezuelan foreign minister Jorge Arreaza Montserrat accuses his government's critics of using human rights as a political weapon.
I believe that the atrocities going on in Venezuela are unacceptable in the 21st century, and that Venezuela is following a well-worn path of post-colonialist corruption and fall from democracy. In many cases all over the world, from South Asia to Africa to South America, in the wake of violent imperialism, hastily set up democratic governments often fall apart. This vacuum can lead to war, unrest, and terrorism.
Without a proper foundation for a countries government it will eventually crumble which is what seems to be happening in Venezuela.
ReplyDeletemaria gonzalez (: -I agree. Even the earliest of settlers had a self-governing system and sometimes this is the reason the colony/settlement survived.
DeleteThe path of post-colonial corruption is certainly far too worn by so many states, especially those in Latin America and it truly is devastating to repeatedly see countries be financially lush for such a short period of time before it tumbles into such atrocities against its citizens.
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