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Caribbean-Latin America

Venezuela wins seat on UN Human Rights Council

2019-10-18

[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

#10 this council is like Alcoholics Anonymous, except that they haven't given up the equivalent of drinking.
But maybe the legitimate government of Venezuela can take over this membership and use it against Maduro and his myrmidons.

Posted by: Daniel 2019-10-18 11:32

#9 The UNHRC has been a joke since forever. They should just elect Jimmy Carter as President for Life and be done with it.

Posted by: SteveS 2019-10-18 10:06

#8 Has the UN gone broke yet? Faster please.

Posted by: JohnQC 2019-10-18 09:41

#7 What are Australia, the UK, Italy and Spain doing in this noble company?

Giving the council the thinnest veneer of 'respectability', for lack of a better word.

Posted by: Raj 2019-10-18 09:00

#6 The question is rather: What are Australia, the UK, Italy and Spain doing in this noble company?

Posted by: European Conservative 2019-10-18 08:15

#5 Looking at all the co9untries in Grom list, I think they left a letter out of the acronym - a "D".

The list looks like the UN Development of Human Rights Council.

Posted by: Bobby 2019-10-18 07:30

#4 Well, Venezuela will be in good company in UNHRC

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-10-18 04:30

#3 Maduro probably missed the peace nobel only because he didn't bother to have himself nominated.

Posted by: Dron66046 2019-10-18 03:58

#2 Well all that beating and killing of their own people finally paid off - they are now on the U.N. Human Rights [abusers] Council!

Posted by: CrazyFool 2019-10-18 03:33

#1 What a fucking joke the UN is. Just disband it already.

Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-10-18 00:32

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