UN Human Rights Council calls for immediate release of Venezuelan dissident Leopoldo Lopez

Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 01:47 UTC

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The United Nations adopted a resolution Wednesday decreeing the Venezuelan government should immediately release Leopoldo Lopez, the opposition leader who has been imprisoned for almost nine months in connection to the violent protests in Caracas in February. Read full article

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Oct 11th, 2014 - 03:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
Cancel Venezuela's non-permanent seat at the Security Council. Suspend Venezuela from all UN bodies!
Oct 11th, 2014 - 09:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Mendoza Canadian
Finally the UN is doing something worthwhile...maybe there is hope for it yet.
Oct 11th, 2014 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
Lopez is the 'face' of thousands of people who are being held without trial all across Venezuela. They are being repressed by a criminal government who is desperately attempting to maintain some semblance of control as their 'bolivarian' trainwreck of an adminstation left the tracks sometime ago and is now hurtling towards the edge of a very deepy and rocky canyon.
I'm just left to wonder how many people they will take with them in their socialist suicide pact...

Dolar parallelo now at 100/1..... keep watching Argentina, that's the way to do it!
Oct 11th, 2014 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pico_Humboldt
We want to be free of Maduro. I wish somebody would help us. The whole country knows the government and militares are narc0-traffikers. Our country is dieing.
Oct 11th, 2014 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
Personally I don't rate Capriles, but Maria Corina Machado is different class. I would love to see her as President. Articulate, educated, with a good grasp of both domestic and global affairs, she could get the country on the right path to freedom and prosperity. Although with the current, massive, damage that has been done she could only start the process. If change happened now, it would still take a generation, (at least!) for Venezuela to achieve its potential. It has the resources, but not the political will. Unfortunately the poor and down-trodden keep swallowing the government lies, just because a food truck turns up just often enough to stop them starving, but at the same time infrequently enough to keep them weak.
A sorry state of affairs.

Maduro deputy, Diosdado Cabello, said back in March this year about his fellow, elected legislator, after Panama ceded its seat at the OAS to allow her to speak in the forum.
“She can go to the OAS court, she can go to the kingdom of heaven,” said Cabello. “But here in Venezuela, she is going to be tried as a murderer, a terrorist; she is going to be tried for crimes against humanity, for conspiracy, for destabilization of this country.”

What a lovely chap (!)... and the most powerful man in the country, (the bus driver is a puppet and a goon of the more powerful chavistas)....

For now, MCN is still a free woman... for now...
Oct 11th, 2014 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Mendoza Canadian
http://venezuelaconspiracytheories.blogspot.com.ar/
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