Attorney General: Venezuela Is A Police State

Venezuela’s Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz said on Monday during an interview released in Lima, Peru, that subordination of the judiciary to secret services has turned Venezuela into a police state, instead of one with advocacy of citizens’ rights. “Here (in Venezuela), carts go in front of horses, Sebin (the Venezuelan National Intelligence Service) gives the guidelines to the judiciary and this obeys. This is not Rule of Law, but a police state,” she told daily newspaper El Comercio. More…