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ISHR and the Sajarov Foundation Communique

March 5, 2004

Last night, I translated part of the Communique by the International Society for Human Rights and the Sajarov Foundation. It was so trong that I only put part of it. Today, I called Germany and verified the origin of the text and its authors. here is the complete text and its writers:


Communiqué of the International Society for Human Rights and the Andrei Sakharov Foundation


 


In the face of the recent wave of crimes against the Venezuelan civilian population, which is claiming for respect for democratic institutionality, perpetrated by the new candidate for totalitarian strongman, Hugo Chávez, our Human Rights Organizations express their firm condemnation and make a public call to the international public opinion so that it reacts in categorical fashion this step back into barbarie which, under the direct influence of the Stalinists directives captained by Fidel Castro from Havana, threatens to subject the whole of Venezuelan society to debacle and tyrannical submission.


 


The subterfuges and false arguments that “Chavism” is employing in Venezuela are the same that have been used by other despots that ended up exterminating millions of human beings with the only real goal of perpetuating themselves in power and of creating dynasties of executioners. V. Lenin, Adolph Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Benito Mussolini and Fidel Castro among other representatives of twentieth century repression have established the formulas for squashing all vestiges of democratic rights and civil liberties.


 


A new wave of fascist and Stalinist national socialism is going around in Latin America, with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro playing the role of Commissars in Chief, the same way it went around Europe for decades last century. Those that fight for the integral respect for human rights, anywhere in the planet, can not remain impassive facing this new cycle which returns us to medieval servility.


 


Vitautas Landsbergis, President of IGFM, ex President of Lithuania.


Alexander Soljenitzyn, ex prisoner of the Gulag y Nobel Prize in Literature


Lech Walesa, ex president of Poland


Janos Kiss, ex President of the Hungarian Parliament


Václav Havel, ex President of the Check Republic


Serguei Agrusow, Founder of IGFM, Germany


Elena Bonner, President of the Andrei Sajarov Foundation.


Elie Wiezel, Nobel Peace Prize


Haydée Marín, President of the Panamerican Comitte of IGFM


Miroslav Kusy, Memmber of the Parlamient of the Republic of Slovakia


Anton Manolescu, President of the Human Rights Comisión of the Romanian Parliament


Sergel Grigorianc, Helsinki Group of Moscow


Adam Michnik, Polish Intellectual and Reporter.


Ricardo Bofill, President of the Committee for Human Rights of Cuba.


Lee Van Thau, Executive Director of the Human Rights Coordinator of Vietnam.


Sergej Kovaljov, Russian Movement for Human Rights.


 


Berlin, March 4, 2004

ISHR and the Sajarov Foundation Communique

March 5, 2004

Last night, I translated part of the Communique by the International Society for Human Rights and the Sajarov Foundation. It was so trong that I only put part of it. Today, I called Germany and verified the origin of the text and its authors. here is the complete text and its writers:


Communiqué of the International Society for Human Rights and the Andrei Sakharov Foundation


 


In the face of the recent wave of crimes against the Venezuelan civilian population, which is claiming for respect for democratic institutionality, perpetrated by the new candidate for totalitarian strongman, Hugo Chávez, our Human Rights Organizations express their firm condemnation and make a public call to the international public opinion so that it reacts in categorical fashion this step back into barbarie which, under the direct influence of the Stalinists directives captained by Fidel Castro from Havana, threatens to subject the whole of Venezuelan society to debacle and tyrannical submission.


 


The subterfuges and false arguments that “Chavism” is employing in Venezuela are the same that have been used by other despots that ended up exterminating millions of human beings with the only real goal of perpetuating themselves in power and of creating dynasties of executioners. V. Lenin, Adolph Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Benito Mussolini and Fidel Castro among other representatives of twentieth century repression have established the formulas for squashing all vestiges of democratic rights and civil liberties.


 


A new wave of fascist and Stalinist national socialism is going around in Latin America, with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro playing the role of Commissars in Chief, the same way it went around Europe for decades last century. Those that fight for the integral respect for human rights, anywhere in the planet, can not remain impassive facing this new cycle which returns us to medieval servility.


 


Vitautas Landsbergis, President of IGFM, ex President of Lithuania.


Alexander Soljenitzyn, ex prisoner of the Gulag y Nobel Prize in Literature


Lech Walesa, ex president of Poland


Janos Kiss, ex President of the Hungarian Parliament


Václav Havel, ex President of the Check Republic


Serguei Agrusow, Founder of IGFM, Germany


Elena Bonner, President of the Andrei Sajarov Foundation.


Elie Wiezel, Nobel Peace Prize


Haydée Marín, President of the Panamerican Comitte of IGFM


Miroslav Kusy, Memmber of the Parlamient of the Republic of Slovakia


Anton Manolescu, President of the Human Rights Comisión of the Romanian Parliament


Sergel Grigorianc, Helsinki Group of Moscow


Adam Michnik, Polish Intellectual and Reporter.


Ricardo Bofill, President of the Committee for Human Rights of Cuba.


Lee Van Thau, Executive Director of the Human Rights Coordinator of Vietnam.


Sergej Kovaljov, Russian Movement for Human Rights.


 


Berlin, March 4, 2004

March 5, 2004

 


 



Reuters translated Pendejo as asshole last week, it’s more like dumbell. Here is this cartoon from Panama sent in by Manuel, where Chavez is shown calling Bush pendejo, then Bush asks Pendej? and then asks his father where he knows the word from, with the elder Bush responding Noriega 1989.

March 5, 2004

 


 



Reuters translated Pendejo as asshole last week, it’s more like dumbell. Here is this cartoon from Panama sent in by Manuel, where Chavez is shown calling Bush pendejo, then Bush asks Pendej? and then asks his father where he knows the word from, with the elder Bush responding Noriega 1989.

March 5, 2004

 


 



Reuters translated Pendejo as asshole last week, it’s more like dumbell. Here is this cartoon from Panama sent in by Manuel, where Chavez is shown calling Bush pendejo, then Bush asks Pendej? and then asks his father where he knows the word from, with the elder Bush responding Noriega 1989.

March 5, 2004

 


 



Reuters translated Pendejo as asshole last week, it’s more like dumbell. Here is this cartoon from Panama sent in by Manuel, where Chavez is shown calling Bush pendejo, then Bush asks Pendej? and then asks his father where he knows the word from, with the elder Bush responding Noriega 1989.

Rational and controlled repression

March 5, 2004

Vice-President Jose Vicente Rangel: ‘ The action of the public forces has been absolutely rational and controlled”


Simple error or malefic plot?

March 4, 2004

 


The resolution announcing the results of the signature drive against President Hugo Chavez, read by the President of the Consejo Nacional Electoral on Wednesday March 3 appears on the CNE website with January 8th. as its date of publication. On that date, the counting of the signatures had not even begun and the issue of the forms with the same calligraphy did not even exist. Simple error or malefic plot?


 


REPÚBLICA BOLIVARIANA DE VENEZUELA
CONSEJO NACIONAL ELECTORAL
Resolución Nro. 040302-131
Caracas, 08 de enero de 2004
193° y 144°


 


El Consejo Nacional Electoral, en uso de las atribuciones que le confieren los artículos 1 y los numerales 1 y 33 del artículo 33 de la Ley Orgánica del Poder Electoral y, singularmente, con base en los artículos 28, 29 y 31 de las de las Normas para regular los Procesos de Referendos Revocatorios de Mandatos de Cargos de Elección Popular, instrumento publicado en la Gaceta Electoral Nro. 181, de fecha 20 de noviembre de 2003.

The new Commissars in Chief

March 4, 2004

From the international society for human rights:


 “A new wave of fascist and Stalinist national socialism is going around in Latin America, with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro playing the role of Commissars in Chief, the same way it went around Europe for decades last century. Those that fight for the integral respect for human rights, anywhere in the planet, can not remain impassive facing this new cycle which returns us to medieval servility”


 


Signed among others by: Vitautas Landsbergis, Alexander Soljenitzyn, Lech Walesa and Václav Havel.

The new Commissars in Chief

March 4, 2004

From the international society for human rights:


 “A new wave of fascist and Stalinist national socialism is going around in Latin America, with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro playing the role of Commissars in Chief, the same way it went around Europe for decades last century. Those that fight for the integral respect for human rights, anywhere in the planet, can not remain impassive facing this new cycle which returns us to medieval servility”


 


Signed among others by: Vitautas Landsbergis, Alexander Soljenitzyn, Lech Walesa and Václav Havel.