Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil announced on Thursday that he
would “suspend the activities”
of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the country and ordered the departure of its staff within 72 hours.
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 who constantly plot against the country”
.
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.