Chavez’s dictatorship of XXI century

Chavez with his Nazi-Bolivarian-Radical form of government that can only be called by one name “Dictatorship”. Dictatorship that all the Venezuelans know very well. Dictatorship with the slogan: “Fatherland, Socialism or Death”.

Chavez transforms many articles in the Venezuela's constitution with laws that violate the human rights of Venezuelans.

In the absence of credible judicial oversight, the Chávez government has systematically pursued often discriminatory policies that have undercut the right of free speech, journalists’ freedom of expression, workers’ freedom of association, and civil society’s ability to promote and defend human rights in Venezuela.


Let's see how it is going on in Venezuela:

Political discrimination

Discrimination on political grounds has been a defining feature of the Chavez’s dictatorship.

The Chávez government has engaged in wide-ranging acts of discrimination against political opponents and critics. At times, the president himself has openly endorsed acts of discrimination and murders. More generally, he has encouraged the discriminatory actions of subordinates by routinely denouncing his critics as Yankee conspirators. "Squalid"

The media

The Chávez government has undermined freedom of expression through a variety of measures aimed at reshaping media control and content. Venezuela once enjoyed a vibrant public debate in which anti-government and pro-government media are equally vocal in their criticism and defense of Chávez. However, by expanding and toughening the penalties for speech and broadcasting offenses, Chávez and his legislative supporters have strengthened the state’s capacity to limit free speech, and created powerful incentives for critics to engage in self-censorship. It has also abused the state’s control of broadcasting frequencies to intimidate and discriminate against stations with overtly critical programming.

Organized labor

The Chávez government has sought to remake the country’s labor movement in ways that violate basic principles of freedom of association. It has fired workers who exercise their right to strike, denied workers their right to bargain collectively and discriminated against workers because of their political beliefs. Through its systematic violation of workers’ right to organize, the Chávez government has undercut established unions and favored new, parallel unions that support its political agenda.

Civil society

The Chávez government has pursued an aggressively adversarial approach to local rights advocates and civil society organizations. During the Chávez presidency, rights advocates have faced prosecutorial harassment, unsubstantiated allegations aimed at discrediting their work, and efforts to exclude them from international forums and restrict their access to international funding.

“Chávez has actively sought to project himself as a champion of democracy, not only in Venezuela, but throughout the region,” the report observes. However, “Venezuela will not achieve real and sustained progress toward strengthening its democracy – nor serve as a useful model for other countries in the region – so long as its government continues to flout the human rights principles enshrined in its own constitution.”