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Bulletin No. 52
From August 27 to September 3, 2018
www.crisisenvenezuela.com
Bulletin No. 52
From August 27 to September 3, 2018
Bloque Constitucional
Judicial Precedent and Civic Participation
acceding information, meeting, and protesting; as well as
the rights to vote in free and universal elections, to
associate with political purposes, and to validate political
parties. An instrument that has been used even for
eliminating parliamentarian’s immunity, and autonomy of
the National Legislative Power, one of the Public Powers of
the State.
A really legitimate citizen-centered Justice System
must be widely and deeply participative, in order to avoid
that the interpretation of the Constitution becomes a
matter for judicial elites. Much on the contrary, that is a
task to be accomplished by attending the social reality
decisions are taken within, ever submitted to the Maximal
Norm. In fact, citizens hold the right to participate freely in
Within a citizen-centered Justice System, the figure of all public affairs; and to obtain guarantees for practicing
Judicial Precedent must be deemed as a general rule to be Human Rights. In a truly Democratic State of Rights,
considered in subsequent decisions and similar cases; it citizens have to be subjects –not mere objects– when it
cannot become a pretext, a mean for flouting the Law. comes to constitutional interpretations, for avoiding the
formation of closed judges’ domains. An active social
In Venezuela, it currently happens that sentences participation will allow not only acceding the Justice
emitted by “justice” courts have come to be an instrument System and defending fundamental rights, but also
to restrict citizens’ rights, especially political rights such as engaging with a straight administration of Justice.
Transparencia Venezuela - www.transparencia.org.ve
Transparencia Venezuela verifies the cross of SAIME’s users for getting a passport
Between February 2017 and those who are in here, in Venezuela
August 2018, Transparencia domains. At the main headquarters
Venezuela has collected 195 of SEBIN, they do not care about
denunciations of outrages against human needs, pains, emergencies,
the Right to Identity, occurred in nor despair! This is a sort of
Administrative Service for devaluing progressively the
Identification, Migration, and citizens’ condition. And it worsens
Foreigners (SAIME). It goes further by the hour!
than a simple figure: they are 195
stories of victims of a State that We insist: SAIME must improve
does not comply with its duty of via making its platform better, via
providing people their identification eliminating useless formalities, via
documents, which are indispensable through the situation of a woman that strengthening attention to the users,
to move outside Venezuela. needs to leave the United States for via publishing on time its procedures
visiting her son, who is ill in Canada. and requirements, via solving
Many testimonies of such a For 22 months now, she has been irregularities efficiently, via
disrespect are never known… nor they tumbling, trapped within the messy accounting publicly for its actions,
will, because the affected persons do tangle SEBIN has become. Our and via working jointly with civil
not have the means nor the initiative attempt was in vain. The answer they society’s organizations.
for exacting a reply from the gave us was: “she has to wait for her
authorities. passport to be issued”, as if nearly two
years of waiting were not enough
Our team spent 12 hours in the time! It is all the same for those who
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SAIME’s Office, attempting to put are abroad –like this lady– and for
Bulletin No. 52
From August 27 to September 3, 2018
Acceso a la Justicia - www.accesoalajusticia.org
Acceso a la Justicia presents 2017 annual inform
In the middle of a complex Acceso a la Justicia
humanitarian emergency, registered at least 76
derived from bad policies of sentences of TSJ that violate
the national government and venezuelans’ human rights, 33
from the accumulation of of which were directly
power by unconstitutional addressed against AN, only
means, Acceso a la Justicia because it is mostly opposed
presents the annual inform to the government. As a
corresponding to 2017. Along result, it is found a complete
last year, this NGO annulment of the Legislative
documented and analyzed Power, since the Executive
important processes and and the Judicial Powers –as
decisions occurred within well as ANC– usurp its
public power, especially those functions. In addition, Acceso
concerning the Supreme Court of process plagued by irregularities, that a la Justicia collected 43 verdicts that
Justice (TSJ), National Electoral trampled popular sovereignty. prove the use of the judicial system
Council (CNE) and fraudulent Another form for accumulating power against any public official who may
Constituent National Assembly has been the unlimited extension of assume actions to vex the
(ANC), all of which affected gravely the State of Exception, which has government. Such were the cases that
warranties and rights constitutionally been in force for two years and a half involved 17 opposing mayors, and the
endorsed, to the point of making already, although it should not last state of Miranda’s governor, Henrique
Nicolás Maduro’s regime be known as longer than 120 days, according to our Capriles.
a modern dictatorship. Magna Carta, when it is declared for
economical reasons. TSJ deemed as
The inform treats the convocation constitutional such situation, never
to ANC, done by the president of the
republic without previously consulting
approved by National Assembly (AN)
and never notified to the international
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people via referendum; and the community, concerning the limitations
election of constituents in an electoral of warranties.
PROVEA - www.derechos.org.ve
Cease harassment against union leaders
In the last 15 days, two well workers’ sector. Navarro has been
known union leaders have followed for several days by
suffered harassment from the –supposedly– officials of
security corps. They are Rubén Bolivarian National Intelligence
González, secretary of a labor Service (SEBIN); and he solicited
union in the State enterprise an investigation at the Attorney
Ferrominera del Orinoco General’s Office, in Caracas. This
(Sintraferrominera), in Bolívar and unionist blames in advance the
Carlos “Chino” Navarro, president government for a possible
of Central de Trabajadores personal misfortune. The Right to
Alianza Sindical Independiente de demand for Rights is not an
Venezuela (ASI Venezuela). through a long judicial process for offense: cease harassment against
calling on a strike. union leaders!
Pursuing Rubén Gonzalez is to
impede the workers’ claim for the Harassing Carlos “Chino” Navarro
accomplishment of their collective is to avoid his denunciations about the
convention. González was in prison negative effects that Maduro’s “big
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for more than one year, after passing pack” (“paquetazo”) means to the
Bulletin No. 52
From August 27 to September 3, 2018
CIVILIS Derechos Humanos - www.civilisac.org
“We must show the spot of light at the distance,
to keep people standing and withstanding”
protector to the victims, and for –and maybe I did not quite
realizing academic work in the street. understand at that time–, we must go
He is a sample of the new activism on working, that is the next! We have
that appeared during student to invent and re-invent daily, for
protests. overcoming adversities, for detecting
new lights, for living here and now, for
—What is the role of defenders in enduring difficulties, for being
our country’s situation? creative. We must find an inspiration
in everybody nearby, in all the persons
—Essentially, it is the search for the around us, in order to feed hope. It is
truth; raising voices for the victims indispensable to understand that
who have been silenced; becoming a solidarity is our greatest strength; that
connector among people; the country, even sick as it is now, is
accompanying persons who have still alive, and intends to stay alive, just
been diversely victimized by the like life itself. As citizens, we have to
violence of the government, in order believe that hope is life itself,
to support them in their fair demands, struggling to defend itself!
Rigoberto Lobo is a graphic and to maintain hope in justice.
designer, an activist on human rights, Everybody is a potential activist. In
and a member of PROMEDEHUM, and the harsh moments we are passing
NGO in the state of Mérida, which through, we must show the spot of
monitors manifestations and
accompanies victims of violations to
light at the distance, to keep people
standing and withstanding. http://bit.ly/2NJDxVw
human rights. Lobo started working
as a defender during 2014 protests, —What is next?
when he linked Universidad de los
Andes (ULA) for helping as a —Just as my father once told me
CEPAZ - www.cepaz.org.ve
Venezuela: Due Process and Human Rights
among Individual and Civil Rights. The Constitution of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela establishes on Art.49 the
Right to Due Process, as a constitutional guarantee for
enjoying and practicing Human Rights.
Multiple violations of Due Process, within the
framework of political pursuit patterns, are now
systematically committed. Revising cases along 12 months
ultimo, we found an evident worsening of judicial pursuit
against political dissidence. We call out the Judiciary to
respect the Right to Due Process, being as it is the
Venezuela is a Democratic Social State of Rights and guarantor and protector of the administrator of Justice.
Justice. Therefore, the government must comply with its
function as a guarantor and protector of the
administration of Justice, which includes the fundamental
Rights to Individual Liberty and to Due Process.
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Due Process figures into the progressive development
of Fundamental Rights, and it is specifically mentioned
Bulletin No. 52
From August 27 to September 3, 2018
Un Mundo Sin Mordaza - www.sinmordaza.org
Caracas’s transport workers: have a card, have no solution
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According to a presidential where he lives. He does not
decree, gas will enjoy a subsidy believe in subsidies nor in other
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via Fatherland’s Card (Carnet de Nicolás Maduro’s promises,
la Patria) and those who do not because he knows he will go on
have it, will pay for fuel at spending more than half his
international prices –a tariff yet to income on his vehicle’s
be determined. According to maintenance.
Minister of Transport, Hipólito
Abreu, by August 15 over two Unión de Conductores de
million venezuelans had Antímano is a public
registered in National Census of transportation line of buses that
Transport (CNT); in turn, a team covers a route from El Silencio
of Memorias por la Vida, which –Caracas downtown– to
went through Caracas during the Antímano –southwest of District
last two weekends, reported that Libertador– and still charges only
the majority of our transport workers reject Bs.S 0,15. Vicente Palacios, a 31 year-old
this peculiar government’s control measure. driver, earns around Bs.S 20-40 per day. He
feels frustrated: with such an earning, he can
Alberto Guzman, 46, drives on the route buy only 15 eggs for the three kids he has at
Boleita –Los Chorros 20 years ago. He thinks home. He is concerned about the future of the
that the raise in transport fares will not benefit Public Transport sector. He explains that the
drivers nor users. “The raise will disappear bus he drives requires 18 liters of oil per
under hyper-inflation”, he complains. He month, each one costing Bs.S 250 (Bs.F
already had his fatherland’s Card because he 25.000.000), which equals 4.8 minimal
was forced to get it, in order to receive a salaries in force (Bs.F 5.190.000). Just 30
monthly box from the Local Committee of buses of this transportation line are currently
Supplies and Production (CLAP) in Petare, operative, out of a fleet of 450 vehicles.
Espacio Público - www.espaciopublico.ong
Journalists prevented from informing about Orinoco River’s flood
flood –an emergency that affects a According to Sgt. Rodríguez, the
vast part of the country. order was given by Major General
Federico Guzmán Bornia, who is the
The journalists, jointly with commander of the Operational Zone
members of some organizations for for Integral Defense (ZODI) #31, sited
the social development, who would in the state of Apure. M.G. Guzmán
deliver food and other items to the Bornia prohibited the passing of mass
victims of the event, had to turn back media, as a way to avoid the diffusion
before arriving the place. “They are of news related to the happening.
Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) journalists, they cannot go ahead. I
detained for more than four hours a have orders from my general, who
team of news reporters of El Nacional
Web, when they intended to arrive at
says they are not authorized”, argued
Sergeant Jaime Rodríguez, an officer
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Puerto Ayacucho, state of Amazonas, in Cunaviche’s detachment.
for documenting the Orinoco River’s
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