Today, while you read these lines, in a South American
country of more than 30 million people there is a dictatorship. That country is
Venezuela. Its government – in violation of its own constitution – does not
allow the people to vote (it suspended the recall referendum and the
gubernatorial elections in 2016), holds more than 100 people (among them the
main opposition leader) behind bars for their ideas, has stripped the
Parliament of its powers and has annulled its laws through the judiciary
(completely controlled by the government), while the state security forces can
arbitrarily detain and torture any citizen whenever the government decides to
do so. We cannot continue to look away. More…
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