LatinNews Daily Report - 10 April 2012

Colombia & Venezuela | Staying on IACHR's blacklist. On 9 April Commissioner José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, the Organization of American States (OAS)’s Rapporteur on the Rights of Human Rights Defenders who leads the OAS’s Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), presented the findings of the 2011 IACHR report. The four nations blacklisted in 2010 – Colombia, Cuba, Honduras and Venezuela – were also blacklisted in 2011, though in the case of the Andean countries they were included for very different reasons: Colombia was included because of the prevalence of “non-demobilised redoubts of paramilitary structures” and the continuation of extrajudicial executions “presumably [committed] by members of the public forces”; in the case of Venezuela, the report cited the continued problems caused by “structural situations”, amongst which it lists the ‘enabling laws’ “which affect the enjoyment of human rights”. The report also points at the “fragility of the judicial power and its lack of independence and impartiality” as well as “the abusive use of penal law”.

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