In an
election that was neither free nor fair earlier this week, the Socialist authoritarian
President of Venezuela was reelected to another term. Boycotted by the democratic opposition, the
election attracted a low turnout, despite promised government food handouts to
voters. The starving Venezuelan people, suffering
under the catastrophe of socialism, did not take the bribes.
The democratic opposition had won a
supermajority of the Venezuelan Congress, but some of them were barred from
being seated and the dictatorship supplanted the Congress by establishing
another legislature packed with appointed and unfairly elected regime
supporters. Basic freedoms are not
respected and people are imprisoned for their political beliefs. The United States has imposed economic
sanctions and other Latin American states and organizations have called for
human rights and representative government to be respected in the once oil-rich
state.
A Latin
American human rights organization determined this week that the forces of
authoritarian Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua fired indiscriminately
into the masses of protestors during the demonstrations last month against a
proposed change to insurance. Scores of
people were killed in the protests.
Posters in Italy appeared
last week pointing out that abortion is the leading cause of the murder of
women. They were removed under
pressure. Abortion was legalized in Italy forty
years ago, but it is rarely carried out because most doctors and other
healthcare providers cannot perform abortions in good conscience.
Thousands
of Argentines earlier this week protested a proposed law to legalize abortion
in Argentina .
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