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Venezuela: dialogue in spite of everything
Venezuela: international pressure
By: Carlos Damian                                  March 15, 2014
UN, OAS and Unasur analyze the situation
Mexico. - The government from Venezuela, headed by president Nicolas Maduro (NM), and representatives of the opposite Table of Democratic Unit (MUD, their initials in Spanish) initiate yesterday (4/10/14) a process of dialogue denominated National Conference for the Peace and the Life that it is developing in public and televised sessions, and that it has the presence of three chancellors of the Union of Nations of the South (Unasur, their initials in Spanish): Maria Angela Holguin (Colombia), Ricardo Patiño (Ecuador) and Luis Alberto Figuereido (Brazil), as well as of the representative from the Vatican in the Bolivar’s Republic. In the inaugural day (4/10/14) of such a process, NM thanked to the Unasur to make possible the approach among antagonistic political blocks and he heard the points out critical formulated by the representatives of the opposition.

On the other hand, the representatives of that multinational organism pointed out that the referred meetings constitute an important step toward the recovery of the political stability in the South American country. Beyond the results that they throw the negotiations and in spite of the samples of skepticism and the disqualification a priori that they were object for some groups opponents, the same fact of its realization is a good news for that country whose social peace has been transformed in recent weeks by a combination of genuine social dissatisfactions and intents that it cannot hide of opponents' groups political destabilization, powers national and international factices and foreign governments, as those of Washington and Madrid. With this backdrop, the administration carried out by the South American diplomacy to achieve an approach between the government and the Venezuelan opposition constitutes a factor of healthy distension that should be supported by the group of the international community.

The consideration cannot be omitted that the successful beginning of the dialogue in Venezuela has been possible, in good measure, because, the corresponding administrations have been carried out in the in the breast of equal regional diplomatic instances, and unaware to the influence and hostility of Washington toward the Venezuelan government. International pressure When increasing the international pressure on Venezuela, five experts of the UN were urgent this Thursday (3/6/14), to the government of NM to investigate the cases of aggressions against demonstrators and journalists and to liberate “any person that detainee remains arbitrarily", soon after the initiate protests last month, and that in the last hours they charged the life of the National Guardia's official as well as of a motorcyclist linked to official groups. In Washington, the permanent Council of the OAS debated the night of this Thursday a Bolivar’s proposal to call to the dialogue to the government and the opposition in Venezuela.

Before the session that was carried out to closed door, the general secretary of the organism, Jose Miguel Insulza, said that the shipment of a mission is not included. Plus still, it discarded on Wednesday to summon to a session at chancellors' level like Panama requested, since there is not democratic rupture in Venezuela. The States supported the initiative of Panama, while a group of American legislators requested to the OAS, to act in front of Venezuela. A Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, announced tonight that the chancellors of the Unasur will analyze the situation of Venezuela next week in an encounter to take place in Chile, where they will coincide with reason of the taking of possession like new president of Michelle Bachelet Correa, who has programmed to travel to Santiago, it pointed out that “previous consultation” with NM, Quito it proposed a summit of governors of the Unasur in the Chilean capital, but that “finally” there will be the appointment of chancellors. Hours before, Maduro reiterated his petition to the Unasur that it summoned to a meeting so that their government denounces that there is “a violent attack of small groups that they have tried to harm the social life and to impose a political situation".

His Bolivian couple Evo Morales expressed him its support, but he said that there still was not consent for a summit of Unasur. "The recent episodes of violence happened amid the protests in Venezuela should be investigated urgently and thoroughly, and the responsible ones should surrender all of their acts in the face of the justice", the experts of the Council of human rights of the UN indicated. In answer, the government from Venezuela that has denounced a coup d’état behind the protests reiterated his absolute commitment with the full validity of the human rights in the country". He sustained that “no demonstrator has been stopped arbitrarily” and that most was liberated; he denied that there are tortured people, isolated or without artificial attendance and he affirmed that there is not formal accusation on this type of facts. The permanent mission of Venezuela before the UN in Geneva “regrets” that the experts of the organization are made echo of the intense campaign of international disinformation loosened by powerful national and strange interests that have always in searched of to destabilize to the legitimate one Bolivar’s govern, and that in the past they favored a coup d’état. Although Venezuela rejects a mission of the OAS to consider it interference in the internal matters, and it broke up relationships with Panama that requested a meeting of the Interamerican mechanism. It also suspended negotiations of the debt of some a thousand 200 millions of dollars of the total of impresarios of their country with exporters from Panama. According to the last balance, the protests have left a balance of 20 corps and 260 wounded.

This day, the Venezuelan government denounced that a national guard and a motorcyclist died to shots in the Caracas’ neighborhood east from Los Ruices. Those motorized riders were clearing barricades when they were attacked with balance of a dead and a wounded, and before the arrival of guards one of them also perished when being attacked by snipers, the president of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello said. It dialogue in spite of the circumstances The exercises of dialogue between they as the initiate yesterday in Caracas they contribute to neutralize the pursuit that it has been object the government of NM from the emergence of the political crisis in that country for the consortia transnational mediatic, while these have determined to present to the Bolivar’s leader like responsible only for the violence and the deaths happened in the picture of the government protests, in the session one can observe Hugo Chavez's successor to carry out a defense of the democratic official, to recognize the existence of different thought currents in their country and to summon these to behave inside the legality.

Significantly, while most of Latin American States has added efforts in recent days so that the dialogue in Venezuela is developed in peace and civility, the main companies western mediatic have insistent in their intents falsifying such negotiations and they have bet to the derailment of the same ones. Finally we hope those interests are not successful in similar calculation and that the chats prosper initiate yesterday (4/10/14) between opponents and the Venezuelan government; that the parts in conflict are able to show good sense, flexibility and height of attitudes and that they strengthen, in that measure, the political official and that country brother's democratic life. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 2 - 5, April 11, 2014).