George Clooney, Maduro’s new nightmare: his foundation denounced him in Argentina
The Clooney Foundation for Justice has filed a complaint in an Argentine federal court over human rights abuses committed in Venezuela, the organization announced yesterday. “The evidence presented by the CFJ (Clooney Foundation) points to the criminal responsibility of the Venezuelan security forces in committing crimes against humanity against victims in connection with political opposition to the Maduro government,” it said.
The complaint invokes the principle of universal justice, which allows crimes against humanity to be tried in the courts of other countries, regardless of where they were committed. “The Venezuelan justice system ignores victims of mass atrocities in its fight for justice,” said the Clooney Foundation’s legal director.
Tijuana mayor flees barracks after threats from drug addicts
The violent border town of Tijuana in northern Mexico is also in danger for Mayor Montserrat Caballero, who has been forced to move to a military facility after being threatened. Just over a bridge from San Diego, California Tijuana It’s one of the most violent cities in the world, with criminal gangs fighting over drug and migrant smuggling routes into the United States. “He has been under protection for two weeks,” confirmed the Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador “We have an agreement in place to protect them.” Caballero received death threats after she seized 1,700 firearms from criminal groups and arrested 56 people.
Castro’s regime killed Payá. Democracies no longer have excuses not to sanction Cuba
Editorial by Argentinian Pulitzer Prize winner Andrés Oppenheimer in the Miami Herald today. “The ten-year investigation by America’s top human rights commission, which concluded that the Cuban regime was responsible for the death of opposition leader Oswaldo Payá, is very important. The 28-page ruling by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will put pressure on Western democracies to take action against the Cuban dictatorship. One of the first should be the exclusion of Cuban dictator Miguel Diaz-Canel from the next summits.
When the General Assembly of the Organization of American States convenes in Washington on June 22 for its annual meeting, America’s democracies are expected to vote to implement the recommendations contained in the Payá ruling. Among other things, the commission recommended calling on Cuba to punish those responsible for Payá’s murder and to allow human rights activists to carry out their work on the island. Likewise, the United States should impose new sanctions on the Cuban officials involved, and the European Union should suspend all funding to the island regime.
The European Union has announced its invitation Diaz-Canel at the EU-CELAC summit of European and Latin American leaders to be held in Brussels in July. Given the Paya ruling, it is scandalous that the EU is inviting the leader of a country whose regime has just been accused of the state murder of one of its key opposition leaders, because Cuba will scoff at their claim to defend democracy and human rights”.
Paolo Manzo, June 16, 2023
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