Yes, history is repeating itself. George Soros and pals, using programmable voting machines Soros controlled, stole the 2004 election in Venezuela and now the corrupt government is violating the human rights of the political enemies being persecuted by the illegitimate fascists in power.
Likewise, Soros and pals supplied corrupted voting machines to steal the 2020 election in the US and now the illegitimate fascists in power are denying the human and civil rights of their enemies as they persecute and imprison them on beefed-up bogus charges by the hundreds.
World Report 2022: Venezuela | Human Rights Watch (hrw.org)
With Autocrats on the Defensive, Can Democrats Rise to the Occasion?
Kenneth Roth
Former Executive Director
The Nicolás Maduro government and its security forces are responsible for extrajudicial executions and short-term forced disappearances and have jailed opponents, prosecuted civilians in military courts, tortured detainees, and cracked down on protesters. They used a state of emergency implemented in response to Covid-19 as a pretext to intensify their control over the population. The lack of judicial independence contributed to impunity for these crimes. Judicial authorities have participated or been complicit in the abuses.
A United Nations Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) identified patterns of violations and crimes that were part of a widespread and systematic course of conduct that it concluded amounted to crimes against humanity. In November 2021, International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan announced his decision to open an investigation into possible crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela. ...
Prior to the negotiations, the government had made limited concessions, largely due to increased international pressure, including naming new National Electoral Council members and allowing the World Food Program (WFP) to deploy.
An independent EU electoral mission that monitored the November regional elections reported that political opponents remained arbitrarily disqualified from running for office, there had been unequal access to the media, and the lack of judicial independence and of respect for the rule of law had undermined the election’s impartiality and transparency.
Persistent concerns include brutal policing practices, abject prison conditions, impunity for human rights violations, and harassment of human rights defenders and independent media.
The exodus of Venezuelans fleeing repression and the humanitarian emergency represents the largest migration crisis in recent Latin American history. ...
Persecution of Political Opponents, Arrests, and Torture
The government has jailed political opponents and disqualified them from running for office. ...