Caracas tells UN: see ‘abuse’ for yourself
Rights probe can break through media matrix
VENEZUELA challenged the UN on Monday to see for itself if opposition allegations of human rights abuses were true.
Addressing the UN human rights council in Geneva, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza invited the organisation’s experts to visit his country to see the situation there at first hand.
He said the invitation was intended to break through the “media matrix” pushed by biased and unfounded sources from the global right wing.
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