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http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR530052004?open&of=ENG-VEN


According to Amensty International(http://www.amnesty.org/)


Venezuelas human rights are being threantended...and deninded...


Between Febuary 27 and March 4 2004 Politcial Violence Erupated. This included mass demontrations...

14 People were killeded and 200 people injureded. 500 people were sent to dention centers(Jail).


Oppostion(to the goverment) said the securaity forces abusused its power(like the old saying goes: My rights only go as far as my arms swing before they hit your nose). The goverment said that police forces(or securaity) did everything within the limits of the law.

What does this say about the law? How does it really reflect the society?


Amnesty International believes that tear gas, rubber bullets, and batons where abused. These weapons are only to be used to matian public order...however when there was already public order is when they got out of hand.

Instead of creating public order out of a mass of chaos(that didnt really exist according to reports...including reports found at www.venezuelaanaylis.com) they just created more problems for securatiy forces.


Many of the people who where sent to jail never had a criminal record before Febuary 27 2004. They where thrown in on little voilence, on top of the abuse that they sustainded from police forces.


They also faced tourtre(illegal in international law, including the Genva Conventions).


Following the mass protests(which i must point out was silenced by the media, most likely due to the contervisal Social Responsibility Law) where a expersion of free speech. When the police forces abused there power they infringed on the citzens free speech rights, once again in voilation of the New Constitution of the Bolivaian Republic of Venezuela)


Related to Canada on a much less voilent scale, but equally powerful. The G8 Summit in Quebec City in April 2001 was a clash between civilizians and police(working on behave of the provincial/munpical levels of goverment). (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/special/g8summit/stories/archive02.html) We as citzens also experinced something simmliar to what happended in Venezuleza... But imagine, if our Human rights(thankfully protected in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms) was taken away like what happended in Venezulea imagine how much aggersion, fear, and other emotions we would have to our goverment... We live in a society that can be thankfull for its rights...


Given this information, i am more then happy to be living in a country that we all often take for granted...


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production

On November 16, 2005 Twenty Five works started a hunger strike in Caracaus Venezuela.
Why? Geobrain (owened by Odebrechtm, which is partly lowned by the Venezuelan goverment)
has not paid them their full wages, their social security or their production bonus.

Luis Manuel Villorroel, President of SOANCA(the National Autonomus Construction Union)
said Geobrain responded to the complaints of the workers by firing 13 and threating to close down production.

www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1815

This is just one case in Venezuleza where workers are not being treated equally.

Whats ironic about this is the fact that the Chavez's goverment is making a Socialist/Communist goverment.

In Socialism the core belief is that society should exist to work as a hole... all production should be owned by the goverment(and since the people make up the goverment it is owned by the people). Socialism works with capalitism to create a greater good(so although all production is owned by the state Socialism still encourages personal capital).

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/socialism

Communism is when a classeless society is formed(elimating rich and poor) and taking the socialist core values to a extreme level seeking to work indepenedtly of all capital powers.

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/commnism

Since Chavez's is trying to make a socialist/communist goverment shouldnt he be paying more attention to the people?(since the people make up the goverment)



The reason why i found this instersting

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time line

I found a link that gives a timeline of the Hugo Chavez goverment in Venesezuzula

This link gives just the basic facts






1998

Hugo Chavez elected president of Venezuela.



July 30, 2000

Owing in large part to the support of Venezuela's poor, Chavez wins re-election in a landslide victory.








Hugo Chavez





Feb. 25, 2002

After being criticized for his energy policy by the head of the board
of directors for state-owned oil monopoly PDVSA, President Chavez
appoints a new board. Control of the company had, to that point,
remained virtually autonomous from government control. This move draws
criticism from PDVSA executives and leads to accusations the president
is attempting to personally control the company.



April 9, 2002

General strike declared by trade unions and Venezuela's largest
business association. The move is to protest the appointment of new oil
company board.



April 11, 2002

Thousands gather to support a national strike. Chavez vows to crush any
opposition, and pro-Chavez gunmen attack crowd. The day of violence
leaves 14 dead and more than 200 wounded. Military commanders arrest
Chavez and demand his resignation.



April 12, 2002

After three years in power, Chavez resigns and opposition leader Pedro
Carmona takes over as leader of the transitional government. Carmona is
head of Venezuela's largest business association. He dismisses the
Supreme Court and calls for elections within a year. Venezuela's
attorney general says that, until another leader is elected, he will
only recognize Chavez as president.



April 14, 2002

Hugo Chavez regains presidency after interim President Carmona resigns.
This comes amid rioting by Chavez supporters and demonstrations
demanding his reinstatement.



Nov. 16, 2002

President Chavez orders the military to take control of police stations
in Caracas. With this move, he effectively seizes power from Caracas
mayor and rival Alfred Pena who, according to Chavez supporters, was
trying to use the 9,000 police to stop pro-government rallies in the
capital. Pena supporters maintain Chavez is attempting to silence
opposition groups.



Dec. 2, 2002

Opposition leaders call a nation-wide strike after the Venezuelan
Supreme Court rules against holding a referendum on Chavez's rule.
Millions walk off the job, including workers at state-owned oil company
PDVSA.



Dec. 6, 2002

At least two people are killed during demonstrations in favour of
expanding the nation-wide strike. Venezuelan oil exports halt as
general strike grinds on.



Dec. 12, 2002

In an attempt to restart oil exports, the Chavez government fires dissident oil company executives.



Dec. 19, 2002

Venezuela's top court orders striking oil workers back to work.
State-owned oil company PDVSA asks the court to rule the strike was a
threat to national security, and illegal.




April 11, 2003

Chavez says he will abide by the results of a referendum on the future of his presidency.



Sept. 12, 2003

The National Elections Council rejects a petition for a recall vote for
President Chavez, citing procedural errors in the application.



Nov. 26, 2003

Opponents of Hugo Chavez announce they will launch a four-day
referendum on his leadership. They will need to collect 2.4 million
signatures in order to trigger a constitutional vote on the issue.
Chavez is in the fifth year of his six-year term as president.



March 2, 2004

Electoral officials announce that not enough signatures have been
collected to force a recall referendum. The National Elections Council
says there are 1.1 million signatures whose validity is in dispute. The
announcement sparks violence between opponents and supporters of
President Chavez.



June 3, 2004

The National Elections Council announces that it has enough signatures to force a referendum on Chavez's presidency.



Aug. 16, 2004

Chavez claims victory after the National Elections Council says almost
60 per cent of voters supported his leadership in the referendum.
Opposition politicians call the result a "gigantic fraud."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/venezuela/timeline.html
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Basic Politics...
Tags: chavez hugo

Bassicly This Blog Serves Three Proposes

One as a project for my Media Studies class

Two as a project for my Canadain and World Issues class

Three to make my research for this project more enjoyable and fun.

I am not a expert on the topic yet, however by the time i am finished this project I will know a little more.

So here is my first REAL entry...





Issue: Is Venesulza in danger of becoming a far left dictorship?

Concerns: If Venesulza becomes a far left dictorship it will isloate its self from the rest of the world(such as what has happended with Cuba, Russia, Libya, and China). Already the goverment is in voilation of atleast seven Human Right Violations.

Impalitcions

Polictial: Hugo Chavezs the leader of the MVR(Movemant for a Fith Republic) is at the center of the left wing goverment. If put into power it will make realitons with many countries very diffcult. Leaders of Oppostion partys believe that Chavez revolution(the Bolivanian Relvoution) is dangering Venezuelan democracy.

Social: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch believe that the hundreds of injuries inflicted durning oppostion demonstrations have resulted in little investigative action taken on the part of Chavez. They also believe that Chavezs is responable for inproper treatment of detainess, torture, and censorship(the Social Responablity Law is a key factor in the censorship).

Ecominc: Currently 60% of Venesulzanins live in poverty. Ironic since the courntry is home to 15% of Americas crude oil supplies, and one of the largest oil resvers lin the world. This raises the question, where is all the money going too? Since Chavezs has been in power there has been little increase in the number of people who are now above the poverty line(yet one of chavezs key platfroms in the election was to erase poverty).

Enviroment: The hositle media enviroment in Venesuzla makes it hard to get any information on the country. Currently all media is owneded by the State alone.

Soulitions: It was seem to be the only possible way to deal with these problems would be to over throw the President, Hugo Chavezs, but is there a better way?
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This will be my first blog

It will be about Venezula and its current political state.

It will talk about how Venezulas politics effect us in Canada directly and indirectly both on a national level and a local level.

Stay tuned...

I'm going to write another blog soon.
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