Caracas, Feb 20 (EFE).- Venezuela’s National Assembly, controlled by Chavismo, has received 25 different suggestions for a date to hold this year’s presidential elections said on Tuesday Pedro Infante, first vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, but the opposition claimed the consultation process seeked to distort the Barbados agreements. “There are no less than …
On January 26, Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice announced its decision to uphold bans on opposition presidential candidate María Corina Machado and two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, preventing them from holding any public office for 15 years. Neither Machado nor Capriles were provided the right to defend themselves against accusations made, therefore violating their rights to due process and defense by international human rights standards. As the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has underscored, sanctions to disqualify candidates should only be imposed through a conviction by a judge within the framework of a criminal process.