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Venezuela wins seat on UN Human Rights Council
[PRESSTV] Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
 has won a seat on the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
 Human Rights Council (UNHRC) despite fierce attacks from US-allied Latin American countries opposed to President Nicolás Maduro
...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground...
’s government.

Caracas, however, hailed its "victory" on Thursday and celebrated an "important achievement" after the crisis-hit country received the nod in a vote by the UN General Assembly to elect 14 new members for the 47-member body based in Geneva.

Venezuela would "celebrate a new victory for Bolivarian peace diplomacy," said the country’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza.

Attorney General Tarek William Saab also praised it as an "important achievement" as he announced the news of releasing of 24 detained opposition figures.

The UNHRC works to promote and protect human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
 around the globe. Its members are elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis.


Posted by: Fred 2019-10-18
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