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17 January 2019 07:20
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Updated January 17, 2019 at 08:05
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that "the dark periods" are experienced in Venezuela, despite the fact that "resistance is gaining strength" in the institutions and on the street.
In its annual report, presented in Berlin, the non-governmental organization offers a mixed image of the year 2018 in which "autocratic leaders" trample on human rights and spread hatred and intolerance.
"The intense reaction against autocrats is surprising," says HRW executive director Kenneth Roth in an interview with EFE, which encourages this resistance to become a trend. It highlights the effect of demonstrations and protests in Poland and Hungary and the elections in Malaysia, the Maldives, Armenia, Ethiopia and the United States.
But above all, it highlights the effect of "unusual coalitions of small countries", such as the Lima Group in its condemnation of Venezuela and the Organization for Islamic Cooperation in its action in favor of the Rohingya in Myanmar, perhaps due to of inactivity of the great powers. .
The report contains open criticism of President Donald Trump of Washington, both internally and internationally, in a year marked by the forced separation of migrant minors and his ambiguous position towards the Saudi assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi: "EE UU has continued to reverse human rights both at home and abroad. "
HRW also denounces the "repression of independent voices and political opposition" in Russia and is highlighted by the "mass detention of up to a million" Uyghurs in China, two countries that according to the opinion of the NGO " they have done everything possible to undermine the application of human rights on a global level ".
The report dedicates an important space to Venezuela – starting with the cover – and laments the "enormous human cost" of keeping an autocrat in power, resulting in "hyperinflation and economic devastation" and the lack of food and medicine, which they did that "millions of people are fleeing the country".
From the point of view of Latin America, the NGO has also highlighted the "great risk" that the arrival of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil represents because of his "racist, homophobic and misogynist" positions, " catastrophe "of human rights in Mexico and unpunished abuses in Nicaragua after the enormous concentration of power made by President Daniel Ortega.
Roth, however, warned that the "Trump of Brazil" could also run into the "resistance" that the president of the United States faces in his country, since the Latin American giant is a "strong democracy" with justice and "independent" means "and a consolidated civil society.
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