Where Was the ICHR When Bolivians Were Being Murdered and Their Media Was

[Say_What]

Where Was the ICHR When Bolivians Were Being Murdered and Their Media Was Being Censored Last Week?

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Venezuela’s Minister of Communications and Information, Jesse Chacon, announced that this Monday he will meet with representatives of the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (ICHR), to explain the details of the legal actions taken by the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) against the Venezuelan commercial television station Globovision.

Chacon said he was worried about the way that the ICHR proceeded with regard to this law enforcement case, which contrasts with their silence with regard to events in other countries. "Bolivia is an example of this, where there were more than 70 people killed, several radio stations closed and some had their towers destroyed. Where was the Commission on Human Rights?" said the Minister.

Chacon said that the ICHR "seems to have little transparency in the way they work," and that this is one of the subjects that he will discuss on Monday with the representatives of the ICHR.

The Minister assured that at his meeting with CIDH representatives, he will make it clear that in Venezuela everything is done according to the Constitution and according to international treaties.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1071

[jmcgowanjm]

1. good work say_what

another story that cannot appear on Murdoch's
Fox

[Say_What]

2. Double standards and hypocrisy of it all is amazing but not surprising

At Democracy Now!! they are interviewing Luiz Gomez, reporter for the Mexican newspaper La Jornda and the website Narco News, speaking from La Paz, and Jim Shultz, executive director of the Democracy Center speaking from Cochabamba. Hopefully they will post the transcript later today.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/20/1454205

[Zhade]

5. Love those images!

NT!

[Judi Lynn]

3. Some news from returning Americans

(snip) Upstate Missionaries Return From Bolivia
Duke University Student Returns Saturday

POSTED: 8:46 a.m. EDT October 20, 2003
UPDATED: 9:27 a.m. EDT October 20, 2003

GREER, S.C. -- After surviving six days of deadly civil unrest, an Upstate family is back home from Bolivia.

The Wimpey family arrived at the Greenville-Spartanburg airport just after 1 p.m. Sunday to a boisterous welcome from more than 50 friends and family members.

"It was a very trying experience that we went through, but we feel like that that's what the Lord wants," Kenneth Wimpey told WYFF News 4's Tracy Atwood.


Michelle Wimpey (center) is greeted by friends and family at GSP airport Sunday afternoon.
The family of four has spent the past year performing missionary work in La Paz, Bolivia, when riots broke out over plans to sell gas to the United States and Mexico.

"It's just what they hear on the streets . We've been robbed of our gold. We've been robbed of our silver. We've been robbed of other natural resources and we've not benefited at all. And we're not letting anybody have the gas," Wimpey said. (snip/...)

http://www.thecarolinachannel.com/news/2565564/detail.html

[Say_What]

4. Brazil, Argentina, Israel and other countries airlifted their citizens

out of Bolivia. The US left theirs high and dry.

[Zhade]

6. They sure did.

I'm proud of the protesters. They kicked that fucker out! What an inspiration!

[0007]

7. It appears they have another fucker on their hands!

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[Say_What]

8. Zhade, I was talking about US citizens--US did not air lift them out

as did Brazil, Argentina, Israel, and other countries.

They did, however, airlift out their pal the ex pres and took him to--you guessed it--Miami.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Miami is a joke,

the celestial abode of Venezuelan coup plotters, as well as any number of South American and Central American bloody right-wing officials and torturers.

Cuba's unpleasant right-wing supported Fulgencio Batista dwelt there for several years, as well.

On edit:

Just had to add this Miami-related bit people might want to remember:

On April 16, however, the Times published a front-page story by Christopher Marquis titled Bush Officials Met With Venezuelans Who Ousted Leader, in which a Defense Department official noted, "We were not discouraging people. We were sending informal, subtle signals that we don't like this guy." In a follow-up article on April 17, Marquis outlined a web of connections between US officials--including Otto Reich, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs--and the men who ousted Chávez. And on April 24 Marquis reported that the United States provided funds to the Venezuelan opposition through the National Endowment for Democracy. The Post's Scott Wilson subsequently noted that coup plotters Vice Adm. Carlos Molina and Col. Pedro Soto had "each received $100,000 from a Miami bank account for denouncing Chávez." By and large, though, news organizations have been slow to follow up on these revelations.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20020527&s=sherman