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Venezuela Ombudsman Calls US 'Global Police' upon Interrogation

  • Venezuela Human Rights Ombudsman Tarek Saab

    Venezuela Human Rights Ombudsman Tarek Saab | Photo: Archive

Published 4 October 2015
Opinion

The Venezuelan official said he was interrogated by Mexican authorities upon the request of the United States.

Venezuela’s human rights ombudsman criticized the U.S. Sunday for enforcing an interrogation during an official visit to Mexico.

The Venezuela ombudsman, Tarek William Saab, said he was interrogated by Mexican authorities upon the request of the United States when he arrived in Mexico for a human rights conference Saturday.

“This action intimidates a Venezuelan official and, guaranteed, there will be a document rejecting this measure from here,” Saab told teleSUR in an exclusive interview from Mexico.

The U.S. disrupted Saab’s trip by imposing a migration alert against him through the international police agency Interpol. Washington has not commented on the issue.

“I inform national public opinion that were subject of a harmful action against International Rights by Interpol-U.S.”

Saab called the extraterritorial action an act of U.S. aggression against Venezuela.

He said both Interpol and the U.S. “are not to limit the work of any official” and that they “violate current international law.”

It is not the first time that Venezuelan officials have come under attack by the U.S. government.

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Last year the former chief of military intelligence was detained upon his arrival to Aruba upon U.S. orders. He was framed as being complicit in drug trafficking.

Similarly, Saab was refused entry into the U.S. in 2001 for “political reasons.”

Saab added that “the U.S. has taken up the role of global police to judge nations and accuse them of a thousand hoaxes.”
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