The UN's human rights body says it has credible accounts of security forces raiding poor neighbourhoods and killing young men, often in their homes.
Venezuela has in the past dismissed human rights allegations as "lies".
The country is going through a protracted political and economic crisis.
Scores of protesters were killed in clashes during anti-government protests last year and the country is also experiencing hyperinflation and food shortages.
These officers may have killed more than 500 people between July 2015 and March 2017 as a way to showcase crime reduction results, the UN says. They are alleged to have staged evidence to make it look like the victims died in an exchange of fire.
The officers involved have immunity from prosecution and no one has been held accountable.
It seems like countries in Europe and Asia are making socialism work for them, could Venezuela's situation be a result of protracted economic warfare? Are crumbling school buildings and bridges or...
It seems like countries in Europe and Asia are making socialism work for them, could Venezuela's situation be a result of protracted economic warfare? Are crumbling school buildings and bridges or the opiate crisis evidence of the failure of highly individualistic capitalism?
Discussing socialism/capitalism in the USA can be very frustrating due to decades of propaganda. There is no reason it has to be one or the other, why not a balance of both? It’s what the...
It seems like countries in Europe and Asia are making socialism work for them
Discussing socialism/capitalism in the USA can be very frustrating due to decades of propaganda. There is no reason it has to be one or the other, why not a balance of both? It’s what the countries you mentioned practice, and what the USA is moving away from, towards pure capitalism.
I often see comments in Brazil saying that we should invade Venezuela. But it doesn't work like that, obviously. There should be an active force from all the American countries to begin with, and...
I often see comments in Brazil saying that we should invade Venezuela. But it doesn't work like that, obviously. There should be an active force from all the American countries to begin with, and I imagine not everyone would get on board. Second, this would be very expensive, and it would take years to improve the situation in Venezuela. Second, how the hell can you fix the political system in the country? A decade of propaganda under Chávez and Maduro, most of the opposition in prison, dead, or otherwise living in another country.
I'm actually pro-intervention, but most Latin American countries are changing from left-wing coalitions to center-right/right-wing coalitions. At least in Brazil, we stopped caring about the UN Security Council seat. Our foreign policy is not as loud as it was during ex-president Lula and ex-president Dilma. Michel Temer travels a lot, but he's still inside the country, always trying to gather votes to some of his reforms. I feel like most of South America leaders don't really care about Venezuela, since our own countries are trying to fix our economy. Not the corruption, heh.
Well they've all spoken to it, and the Venezuelan gov't structure has just about nothing to do with their ideologies. It's incredibly unfair to compare Bernie, someone looking to expand...
Well they've all spoken to it, and the Venezuelan gov't structure has just about nothing to do with their ideologies. It's incredibly unfair to compare Bernie, someone looking to expand "socialization" that already exists in the U.S., to a communist dictatorship.
It seems like countries in Europe and Asia are making socialism work for them, could Venezuela's situation be a result of protracted economic warfare? Are crumbling school buildings and bridges or the opiate crisis evidence of the failure of highly individualistic capitalism?
Which asian countries are you referring to?
Discussing socialism/capitalism in the USA can be very frustrating due to decades of propaganda. There is no reason it has to be one or the other, why not a balance of both? It’s what the countries you mentioned practice, and what the USA is moving away from, towards pure capitalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy
I often see comments in Brazil saying that we should invade Venezuela. But it doesn't work like that, obviously. There should be an active force from all the American countries to begin with, and I imagine not everyone would get on board. Second, this would be very expensive, and it would take years to improve the situation in Venezuela. Second, how the hell can you fix the political system in the country? A decade of propaganda under Chávez and Maduro, most of the opposition in prison, dead, or otherwise living in another country.
I'm actually pro-intervention, but most Latin American countries are changing from left-wing coalitions to center-right/right-wing coalitions. At least in Brazil, we stopped caring about the UN Security Council seat. Our foreign policy is not as loud as it was during ex-president Lula and ex-president Dilma. Michel Temer travels a lot, but he's still inside the country, always trying to gather votes to some of his reforms. I feel like most of South America leaders don't really care about Venezuela, since our own countries are trying to fix our economy. Not the corruption, heh.
I wonder what Bernie Sanders, Sean Penn, Danny Glover and Oliver Stone have to say about this? ... crickets
Well they've all spoken to it, and the Venezuelan gov't structure has just about nothing to do with their ideologies. It's incredibly unfair to compare Bernie, someone looking to expand "socialization" that already exists in the U.S., to a communist dictatorship.