Posted on 12/17/2009 7:26:21 PM PST by Texas Fossil
Diario de America (note- Machine translation from Spanish)
"Rigged States Organization"
By Luis Marín
The OAS is well aware, in any of the instances, what is the state of human rights in Venezuela, as does also on Cuba, even though that country is full member of the organization.
It does not take in all the visit of any committee "in loco" for what he need to contact a group of experts who could do their job and report much better documented and more credible than the same inter-American commission, so permeated by political and ideological interests of the respective governments.
If the OAS does not take any action or make any pronouncement is because their political aims in the opposite direction, particularly by the compass that uses its Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza.
The Cuban regime opens the way for his reinstatement, precisely at the meeting in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, contributing to the unleashing of the most serious political crisis in that country in its history.
The arguments used are unworthy of friendly diplomats, as the suspension of the Castro regime occurred in the context of the Cold War and no longer makes sense with the collapse of the USSR or that isolation and sanctions has not been achieved in half a century no democratization of the country, so the task is to try the opposite policy.
Completely ignoring that the reasons for the decision of suspension now repealed referred to the fact that Castro had self-defined his regime as "Marxist-Leninist" and a known yet still is, in fact, this is the center of his break with the USSR in 1989, launching the so-called special period and the change of its famous slogan, which then reads: "homeland, socialism or death".
It is less clear that the communist system was and remains incompatible with the rationale of the OAS is based promotion of representative democracy and guaranteeing individual human rights.
But all this controversy proved futile because the Castro regime as opposed to joining, as they asked their allies, has been recommended rather dissolve the organization and replaced by another without the presence of the United States, or if you want to Cuba Americans throw!
In these circumstances, can anyone reasonably expect that the OAS Democratic Charter will apply to the Castro regime prevailing in Venezuela? But if you still harbor any doubt about the political subservience of Insulza, embarrassing enough to see the gorge in which the OAS has put in Honduras. Then he tells a diametrically and thinks that they are worth the suspension of the country and the economic blockade to achieve results.
Even the U.S. representatives are a morbid delight in calling "de facto regime" Micheletti interim government, which could also be called "transition" without offending anyone, but here the masquerade includes speaking coup and up from dictatorship to refer to an ostensibly civilian government, while he throws his arm in man uniformed dictators like Castro, Ortega and Chavez.
Now you do not like the election, the alternative regime, the presidential succession, preferring continuistas schemes such as the ALBA, the abolition of private property, censorship of the press, the prosecution of political persecution, personalism, arbitrariness and end system of legal guarantees for citizens, in short, the decline of the rule of law.
After his failure in Honduras, Insulza should resign, but on the contrary, makes his re-election, faithful to the new philosophy that inspired it.
THE SILENCE OF THE GUILTY. The former Colombian presidents advisory committee meeting of the Uribe government, they had better choose wisely which César Gaviria, perhaps because of his status as former secretary general of the OAS, to serve as their spokesman in a statement declaring "surprise" by the silence of the friendly countries of Colombia, to threats of aggression that the country is suffering from the "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela."
Ignoring the mocking tone with which sandwich the word "Bolivarian" to the Republic of Venezuela, without deigning to call themselves "santanderianos" sufficient answer that this silence is proportional to that they have kept to the immeasurable damage done to the people Venezuelan Gaviria management at the head of the OAS.
We can not forget that he moved the secretary general for six months to the territory of this country to devote himself almost exclusively to the Venezuelan case and evaluate its performance made it impossible to find a result that has not been conducive to the consolidation of the regime we are now experiencing .
Silence he shares with Jimmy Carter, not even deign to answer the claims that are made to honor the commitments they made in the "negotiating table and agreements" which was the scion of the political and social turbulence of the now distant year 2002.
Should be asked to Gaviria and Carter if they find it a good fruit of a "truth commission" on the events of April 11, now all the blame on the commissioners are unloaded Ivan Simonovis, Henry Vivas, Lazaro Forero, humble six metropolitan police and one military officer, Captain Otto Gebauer.
Wow Caesar, Jimmy, if they are ordinary men, not to mention "good family", that maybe too much to ask: Do you feel satisfied with these results? You expect the Venezuelans forget the role they played in this infamy? Do they have moral authority to complain about the silence of others?
Ironically, the same can be said Foreign Ministry of El Salvador, who gave the commissioners a real ordeal, as the guarantor countries, including Costa Rica, which again bring up the hackneyed theme of the doctrine Arias.
A fact that makes restoring hope that justice does exist after all, shows us the complaint of former Colombian presidents. So, it seems that Colombia is also suffering the consequences of creeping Gaviria maneuvers in Venezuela.
There can be no doubt that the U.S. also have to pay something for Jimmy Carter's unspeakable interference in internal affairs of other countries and hopefully when that happens will remember what he and his foundation, the Carter Center did, and continue done surreptitiously and almost furtively, as if no one was realizing, halfway around the world.
But as they say in Venezuela: "The sale tramposería.
Closing. Just take a look at the national press, which today can do online from anywhere in the world (except Cuba or Iran) to realize the ruin of the judiciary in Venezuela from political persecution and even the stated intention of the scheme to bypass the scheme of separation of powers recognized throughout the civilized world.
Just take a day without any specialist can be seen, how a judge goes suddenly representative of the judiciary to maiestas laesa inmate, without a court! But more surprising is that this transition occurs for the performance of functions of his office, namely that the act which he is charged as a crime is within its powers as a judge.
Everyone knows that he can be a wrongheaded judicial decision, at best can give a disciplinary sanction, but not for a deprivation of liberty, let alone requesting the maximum sentence of 30 years, reserved for extreme crimes or unrepentant murderers.
Coincidentally, the arrest of Mr. Franklin Brown occurs the same day in front of the OAS headquarters in Caracas. What he is charged? In all, the arrest is made through a judicial procedure to preserve his life under. Does the prosecution in its remit protections apply on behalf of another person who has requested not even against their expressed will? Who is covered, prosecutors or Mr. Brown? Against whom is the defense, against himself? Is not it destroys the spirit, purpose and rationale of the defense?
Indeed, Mr. Brown comes to this sad situation by the utter helplessness that is (like any other Venezuelan) for having no where to go to defend her rights have been violated, hence end at the doors of the OAS, which or given the hint.
Until just yesterday the Constitutionalists taught that every constitution has two parts: An organic, establishing the division of public power in the traditional executive, legislature and judiciary, another dogma, that guarantees human rights and citizens.
This tradition has its origins in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, which established, since the dawn of the French Revolution, that "a society in which the security is not assured of their rights or given the lack of separation of powers Constitution. "
So the division of powers and respect for human rights is therefore a sine qua non for the constitution there. The contrary to the constitutional regime is the regime absolutist despotism.
Everything is so clear that repeat strike. The need for approval of the scheme to allow for a site visit is a trivial burladero. It works in practice as a veto power, which is not in the Charter of the OAS, so that the Human Rights Commission can not proceed without permission from the government concerned.
This equates to a decline of universal jurisdiction in human rights, but also violates the Venezuelan constitution, which established that human rights treaties have preferential application of the same constitution and are immediately and directly applied by the courts and public power, the more for a supranational body.
The same constitution commands, in one of its most controversial provisions, "not to sacrifice justice for the omission of nonessential formalities. The site visit is a useless formality, completely unnecessary and a bad excuse to hide the complicity of the OAS with the neo-socialist dictatorships.
Insulza, instead of promoting democracy, freedom and individual rights in the continent, as is their duty, promotes socialism, continuity, censorship, authoritarianism, militarism, systematic and massive violation of human rights such as freedom, property and legal certainty.
OAS may well save yourself the price of those tickets and travel of staff members, after all, deservedly, no one will respect you.
I Praise how well Mr. Micheletti and the Honduran People stood the test of this pack of jackles, including the U.S. State Department. (until their motives were exposed and they were shamed into acceptance of the election results.)
I didn’t know ACORN had a chapter down there.
Lets hope that we can soon deal with the Acorn thugs here.
Same War, Same Enemies simply different engagement.
These people are a clear & present danger to our freedom, and that of the rest of the free Western Countries.
This one is for keeps.
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