Venezuela expels UN human rights staff. Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yvan Gil, announced on Thursday “suspend the activities’ of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights.
An independent fact-finding mission from the OHCHR office in Venezuela denounced on Tuesday a “wave of repression against opponents” which is intensifying in the country. The minister denounced the “inappropriate role that this institution has developed, which far from showing itself as an impartial entity, has led it to become the private office of putschists and terrorists”