“Venezuela rejects the reports from the OAS's Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), because the IACHR is a politicized entity biased against Venezuela.The organization’s Secretariat, for example, supported the coup against President Hugo Chávez in 2002.

“If we agree that the free will of the people to elect their representatives to be the bedrock of all political rights, then the Secretariat’s [of the IACHR] failure to defend the legitimate President of the country during the coup in 2002 disqualifies it from being an impartial observer and promoter of the political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights enjoyed by the Venezuelan people.

The IACHR is not the proper space for an objective discussion of human rights in Venezuela.” - Ambassador of Venezuela to the US, Bernardo Alvarez

The ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United States, Bernardo Álvarez, today warned Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) of the political bias of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) against the government of Venezuela. In a letter, Ambassador Álvarez responded to a joint statement made by the two senators calling for a hearing at the Organization of American States (OAS) on an IACHR report on democracy and human rights in Venezuela.

The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was informed through the media about the indictment issued by a Spanish judge containing unacceptable and politically-motivated accusations against the Venezuelan government.

The aforementioned indictment refers to a citizen that has resided in Venezuela since May 1989 as a consequence of agreements signed by former President Carlos Andrés Pérez and former Prime Minister Felipe González. It is surprising that the authors of this agreement are not mentioned, while the judge took the trouble to repeatedly and disrespectfully mention Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez by issuing tendentious and baseless accusations against the Venezuelan government.

All the accusations issued by this judge come from the files of the allegedly laptop seized from Raúl Reyes during a military operation where Ecuadorian territory was illegally bombed and hundreds of people were massacred. Furthermore, it is surprising that the judge revives the eroded farce of the laptop, which has become part of Colombian political folklore.