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August 7th, 2017 
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nsnbc : The Latin American trade bloc Mercosur, on Saturday, suspended Venezuela’s membership hours after the newly-elected and highly controversial Constituent Assembly ousted the country’s “dissident” Attorney General Luisa Ortega.
After a meeting in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, Brazilian Foreign Minister Aloysio Ferreira told reporters: ‘We are saying: Stop with this! Enough with the deaths, enough with the repression. It is not possible to inflict such torture to the people.”
The suspension of Venezuela is indefinite. Mercosur maintains that Venezuela is failing with regard to upholding its commitments, among others with regard to democratic principles and human rights within the trade bloc. Venezuela joined Mercosur in 2012.
Mercosur’s decision to suspend Venezuela came only hours after the newly elected Constituent Assembly ousted “dissident” Attorney General Luisa Ortega and decided to replace him with the PSUV compliant Tarek William Saab.
Saab was previously Venezuela’s human rights ombudsman, but he has been internationally accused of a cohort of human rights abuses. After the Constituent Assembly voted to replace Ortega with Saab, dozens of Venezuela’s National Guard members surrounded Ortega’s office and refused to allow her entry. Ortega said the troops ‘attacked’ her with riot shields to prevent her from entering the building.
Ortega told reporters ‘This is a dictatorship”. Ortega’s firing was expected. Members of the constituent assembly had said it would be their first priority. Ortega had described the new Constituent Assembly as non-representative and corporatist. Ortega also attempted to file criminal charges against a number of Supreme Court Justices, among others for crimes against the republic.
Previously a supporter of Nicolas Maduro and the PSUV administration, Ortega broke with the PSUV regime when the Supreme Court suspended the National Assembly (parliament), where the Roundtable of Democratic Unity holds an absolute majority. The Court claimed the lawmakers were “in contempt” and usurped the powers of the legislative branch og government. The National Assembly has since been superseded by the Constituent Assembly that is tasked with legislative functions, and with drafting a constitution to replace the 1999 Constitution adopted under the late Hugo Chavez.
CH/L – nsnbc 06.08.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/08/06/mercosur-suspends-venezuela-hours-after-constituent-assembly-ousted-dissident-attorney-general/
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