“Venezuela rejects the reports from the OAS's Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), because the IACHR is a politicized entity biased against Venezuela.The organization’s Secretariat, for example, supported the coup against President Hugo Chávez in 2002.

“If we agree that the free will of the people to elect their representatives to be the bedrock of all political rights, then the Secretariat’s [of the IACHR] failure to defend the legitimate President of the country during the coup in 2002 disqualifies it from being an impartial observer and promoter of the political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights enjoyed by the Venezuelan people.

The IACHR is not the proper space for an objective discussion of human rights in Venezuela.” - Ambassador of Venezuela to the US, Bernardo Alvarez

The ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United States, Bernardo Álvarez, today warned Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) of the political bias of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) against the government of Venezuela. In a letter, Ambassador Álvarez responded to a joint statement made by the two senators calling for a hearing at the Organization of American States (OAS) on an IACHR report on democracy and human rights in Venezuela.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, exercising its full sovereignty, strongly rejects the U.S. government’s dreadful and lying accusations against the Bolivarian Government of not cooperating against illicit drug-trafficking.   

The attacks of the U.S. empire to the policies developed by the Hugo Chávez’s revolutionary government to fight against drug-trafficking show, one more time, that the U.S. –violating the international principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of states– acts against the self-determination of the people of Venezuela. Furthermore, it violates the basic principles of international relations.