According – Noticias Politicas sobre Venezuela – Breaking News https://politica-venezuela.com Breaking News y Noticias del mundo entero Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:00:55 +0000 es hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://politica-venezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cropped-icopolve-32x32.png According – Noticias Politicas sobre Venezuela – Breaking News https://politica-venezuela.com 32 32 Clipping Digital | Venezuelan Intelligence Agencies Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity, UN Report Says https://politica-venezuela.com/08/11/2022/clipping-digital-venezuelan-intelligence-agencies-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-un-report-says/ https://politica-venezuela.com/08/11/2022/clipping-digital-venezuelan-intelligence-agencies-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-un-report-says/#respond Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:00:55 +0000 https://politica-venezuela.com/08/11/2022/clipping-digital-venezuelan-intelligence-agencies-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-un-report-says/

?In the case of SEBIN, the report points to the current director general, Gustavo Enrique González; the director of the Helicoide [the main detention center] between 2014 and 2018, Carlos Alberto Calderón; and his number two at the time, Ronny González, as responsible,? German news site  Deutsche Welle  ( DW ) reported

By Dialogo Américas Nov 07, 2022 According to Marta Valiñas, president of the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission, investigations show that the Venezuelan regime relies on intelligence services and its agents to repress dissent in the country. ?In doing so, grave crimes and human rights violations are being committed, including acts of torture and sexual violence,? Valiñas said in a statement. ?These practices must stop immediately, and the individuals responsible must be investigated and prosecuted in accordance with the law.?

¿Quieres recibir nuestro exclusivo boletín informativo en tu correo? ¡Suscríbete a #BoletinPatilla! Silencing dissent In the report,  Calculated Repression: Stigmatization and Arbitrary Detention for Political Reasons in Venezuela , nongovernmental organization (NGO) Amnesty International highlighted the systematic and widespread excessive use of force and torture in the South American country that amount to crimes against humanity.

?For years, Amnesty International has documented and denounced the policy of repression,? the NGO says, adding that the Maduro regime has ?consolidated a narrative in which criticism of public policies or any action that is perceived as contrary is rejected, censored, and attacked.?

?Iranization of the regime? ?All the reports, both from the U.N. and other agencies, confirm the terrible repression in Venezuela,? Luis Fleischman, sociology and political science professor at Palm Beach State University in Florida, told  Diálogo . ?It?s the ?Cubanization? and ?Iranization? of the regime, where the opposition has been killed and tortured and the population is kept under maximum surveillance,? Fleischman said.

In a previous report, FFMV addressed the situation in Bolívar state, where members of the regime and non-state actors committed a series of violations and crimes against local populations in gold mining areas. The U.N. Mission based the findings of both reports on 245 confidential interviews with victims, their relatives, and former security and intelligence officials.

?The interviews were conducted both in person and remotely, through secure telephone or video connections,? FFMV said. Experts also analyzed court records and other documents related to the incidents. ?The Mission visited areas close to the country?s borders, due to the fact that since its establishment in 2019 it continues to be unable to access Venezuelan territory,? FFMV said.

SEBIN and DGCIM The recent U.N. report delves into the findings that the Mission exposed in 2020 — the actions of the Military Counterintelligence General Directorate (DGCIM) and the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) — this time focusing on the roles of the individuals at different levels in the chain of command in both agencies.

?In the case of SEBIN, the report points to the current director general, Gustavo Enrique González; the director of the Helicoide [the main detention center] between 2014 and 2018, Carlos Alberto Calderón; and his number two at the time, Ronny González, as responsible,? German news site  Deutsche Welle  ( DW ) reported.

?In the DGCIM, Director General Iván Rafael Hernández is mentioned, as well as former heads of different strata of the agency: Rafael Antonio Franco, Hannover Esteban Guerrero, and Alexander Enrique Granko,? the  DW  reported.

Help from the United States On September 22, the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced nearly $376 million in additional humanitarian assistance for people affected by the Venezuela regional crisis. ?The humanitarian toll from this political and economic crisis in Venezuela remains dire,? USAID said in a statement.

?More than 7.7 million people in Venezuela need immediate humanitarian assistance and more than 6.8 million Venezuelans have fled their home country in search of better opportunities and livelihoods, resulting in one of the largest migrant and refugee crises in the world,? USAID added.

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Amministrativo Carmelo De Grazia Suárez// Pesticides and heavy metals detected in Argentine river waters https://politica-venezuela.com/08/11/2022/amministrativo-carmelo-de-grazia-suarez-pesticides-and-heavy-metals-detected-in-argentine-river-waters/ https://politica-venezuela.com/08/11/2022/amministrativo-carmelo-de-grazia-suarez-pesticides-and-heavy-metals-detected-in-argentine-river-waters/#respond Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:00:38 +0000 https://politica-venezuela.com/08/11/2022/amministrativo-carmelo-de-grazia-suarez-pesticides-and-heavy-metals-detected-in-argentine-river-waters/ The specialists found that “agricultural activity is the main source of contamination” According to a report from the National Institute of Agropecuarian Technology (INTA) and the national universities of San Martín (Unsam) and of the Litoral (UNL), a high number of biocides was detected in the Salado River basin in the province of Santa Fe.

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Scientists are concerned about the impact of these substances on the local aquatic fauna.

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A laboratory study by INTA and the two universities confirmed the presence of 30 agrochemicals and heavy metals in the Salado river basin, in Santa Fe, also known as Salado del Norte, a considerable river course in the center-north of the country, belonging to the water complex of the La Plata Basin

The report titled “Environmental quality and ecotoxicity of sediments from the lower basin of the Salado River on amphibian larvae” has been published by the international journal Science Direct

The specialists found that “agricultural activity is the main source of contamination” due to the massive use of pesticides, since after their application in agricultural areas “they are transported to aquatic ecosystems” which they end up affecting and endangering

Laboratory results showed the presence of residues of thirty substances including chlorpyrifos, which are banned in the United States and the European Union, in addition to diazinon, glyphosate and its metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), acetochlor, and atrazine

Among the pesticides detected were traces of carbofuran and imazapyr, the most dangerous to aquatic organisms as they are classified as Class I (Highly Toxic). The report points out that contaminants in sediments threaten aquatic life due to potential accumulation over long periods, and in many cases “are above the limits accepted by international standards”

The document also pointed out that the wide variety of agrochemicals detected indicates their widespread presence in the water and sediments of this Basin where “the risk of chronic exposure of living organisms to biocide mixtures is inevitable.” As for heavy metals, chromium, copper, and iron from industrial activities were found in high and persistent quantities due to the lack of controls

The study is the result of a multidisciplinary work carried out by a diverse team made up of Ana Paula Cuzziol Boccioni, Paola Peltzer, and Rafael Lajmanovich, from the Ecotoxicology laboratory of the School of Biochemistry and Biological Sciences of the National University of Litoral (UNL); Julieta Peluso and Carolina Aronzon from the Institute of Environmental Research and Engineering of the University of San Martín (Unsam); and INTA‘s Virginia Aparicio

“To our knowledge, this is the first study to report the presence of such a high number of biocides in water and sediments of the lower Salado River,” the document states, and concludes that there is “an urgent need to increase the distance of pesticide-dependent transgenic crops from aquatic ecosystems, as the observed degraded environmental quality threatens socio-cultural services, human population, and the environment.”

(Source: Tiempo Argentino)

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