The growing tension between Venezuela y USAmarked by the sinking of ships in the southern Caribbean and Donald Trump’s authorization for the CIA to carry out actions in the South American country, even of a lethal nature, has given rise to Nicolas Maduro to call their bases to strict surveillance. “Report what you see or hear that threatens peace.”he asked. State snooping, Maduro proposed, should take the form of a phone application that connects the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, the Communal Militia Units and the Popular Bases of Comprehensive Defense.
The initiative was described by the non-governmental organizations VEsinFiltro and Un Mundo as “a new surveillance mechanism” which also promotes “reporting as a formula for persecution, censorship and social control.” The proposal represents a serious risk for the privacythe freedom of expression and the integrity of the people. It is contrary to “international standards of human rights“by violating articles 17 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and articles 11, 13 and 15 of the American Convention on Human Rights.
Last July, after street incidents rejecting Maduro’s re-election without displaying the minutes of the National Electoral Council, a digital surveillance instrument began to be developed to denounce those who protested against the results. The app was then removed from the Google and Apple stores..
The complaint takes place in the middle of the state celebrations for the canonization of the first two Venezuelan saintsSaint José Gregorio Hernández and Saint Carmen Rendiles. Madurismo took to the streets this Wednesday to thank heaven. But the Vatican joys are not full, because last Sunday, the cardinal Pietro ParolinSecretary of State of the Vatican, demanded during a thanksgiving mass that the Government release the almost 800 detained for political reasons, some of them denounced as informers.
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