Overview of Human Rights in Venezuela

• Authors: Bolívar O. Ligia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Formally constituted as a democracy, Venezuela has experienced a significant deterioration in the situation of human rights during the last decade. Such deterioration is partly due to an increasing concentration of power in the Executive branch which is reflected in the lack of independence of other branches of the State. The lack of independence – particularly in the judiciary and its subsidiary bodies – results in an increasing impunity in human rights related crimes. The present paper shows how the institutional framework has been dismantled and converted into a tool of a political project, with negative effects on human rights.

Keywords

EN

Human rights; Venezuela; Hugo Chávez’s government

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 2(24): Venezuelan Studies
• Pages: 267-290

Contributors

author

Bolívar O. Ligia

• Andrés Bello Catholic University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/Politeja.10.2013.24.17