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| Venezuela's Supreme Court Blocks Foreign Help |
| 2016-06-16 |
| Venezuela’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that a law to accept humanitarian medical aid violates the constitution, as the health crisis in the oil-rich country keeps on worsening. However, rejecting humanitarian help for fear of intervention is nothing new in Venezuela. It already happened in 1999. For the “humanitarian aid corridor" -- a plan that read like the current equivalent of the Berlin airlift during the Cold War -- it was a bad Monday: not only it was rejected it at the Supreme Court, but also before the Organization of American States. Speaking during an OAS event, the Venezuelan ambassador before the organization, Bernardo Alvarez, explained that the Nicolas Maduro government not is only worried about legal matters when it comes to humanitarian aid, but that it also fears that the aid would entail foreign intervention. “We believe in humanitarian aid but in a different one,” said Alvarez. “Not using it in the framework that (the Venezuelan opposition) wants to use it, which hides an unacceptable desire for (foreign) intervention”. During the OAS event, held in Santo Domingo, Secretary General Luis Almagro reiterated that the organization will discuss, again, the Venezuelan situation at a Permanent Council meeting scheduled for June 23rd. The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Hall struck down the aid law after a public request by President Nicolas Maduro, a familiar pattern when it comes to bills approved by the opposition-dominated National Assembly -- all of which have been struck down by the partisan governing body court. The highest court in the land ruled that the law “usurps” matters that are the exclusive domain of the executive power and that it also violates ten articles in the Venezuelan Constitution. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #4 Jonestown. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-06-16 12:15 |
| #3 "We prefer cash" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-06-16 08:50 |
| #2 If it makes sense to them, it makes sense to me. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-06-16 02:58 |
| #1 So I can now wipe my ass with genuine Venezuelan tree bark - nice! |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-06-16 00:30 |