Source: Miami Herald Venezuela’s interim president, Nicolás Maduro, came out Tuesday fighting the acute depreciation of the bolivar against the U.S. dollar by ordering the indictment and jailing of the creators of lechuga.com, a popular website that thousands of Venezuelans consult everyday to check currency exchange quotes in the parallel [...]

March 21, 2013 Mr. President, there is much at the Organization of American States that needs to be reformed, but the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is not among them.  Yet that is what the Government of Ecuador, and some other Latin American governments, purport to be calling for [...]

Source: Miami Herald When Maria da Penha’s husband shot her in the back, leaving her paraplegic, it was the culmination of years of domestic abuse. In her battle for justice, she was fortunate to have an ally in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), a respected independent body, established [...]

Source: VoA WASHINGTON — Venezuela’s Acting President Nicolas Maduro has been making unsubstantiated accusations against Washington, also accusing the United States of plotting to kill Venezuela’s opposition candidate for president. Maduro’s allegations are being interpreted as campaign rhetoric for now. But there is growing concern they could incite political violence and [...]

Source: Fox News CARACAS, Venezuela –  Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles says he would stop trading oil to Cuba for services such as Cuban doctors providing medical care for Venezuela’s poor. Capriles says he opposes selling petroleum to Cuba under preferential terms because it doesn’t benefit Venezuela. Former President Hugo [...]

Dear OAS Ministers of Foreign Affairs: Ahead of the assembly of the Organization of American States on March 22, the Committee to Protect Journalists urges you to oppose any attempts to debilitate the regional human rights system. The failure of member states to preserve the autonomy and independence of the Inter-American Commission on [...]

Source: Politico The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor is urging President Barack Obama to stop an alleged CIA plot to assassinate his main rival for the presidency,Reuters reports: [Nicholas] Maduro first mentioned a plot against his rival, Henrique Capriles, last week, blaming it on former Bush administration officials [...]

Source: Wash Post HUGO CHAVEZ may be dead, but the offensive he led against democratic institutions in Venezuela and across Latin America has not slackened. In fact, it may be accelerating, especially with regard to independent media. Last week the beleaguered owner of the last Venezuelan television station not subservient [...]

For Immediate Release  New York (March 15, 2013) – The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls on the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, to undertake diplomatic initiatives with the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela so that they invite an OAS electoral observation mission to monitor [...]

Source: ABC News Venezuelans are lining up to bid their last farewell to Hugo Chavez along a route that’s a reminder of the problems left behind after the late president’s death. Chavez’s body is being transferred Friday from the military academy where it has been lying in state to the [...]