Venezuela: Timidity and Sub-Standard Election Observation
Venezuela: Timidity and Sub-Standard Election Observation
By
Javier El-Hage, Thor Halvorssen
The upcoming electoral process in Venezuela is unlikely to have an international observer capable of condemning unfair tactics.
Last week, the Human Rights Foundation called on the Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, to urge the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela to invite an OAS electoral observation mission to monitor the upcoming April 14 presidential elections. An OAS mission—along the lines of what it used to field in the 1990s and early 2000s—would go a long way toward ensuring that the elections are...
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