Alfred de Zayas

How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for ‘Regime Change’

March 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Counter Revolution, coup, Hybrid Warfare, Nicaragua, Right Wing Extremism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, United Nations, US Hypocrisy

By John Perry, published on Covert Action Magazine, Jan 2, 2025 In the words of the United Nations, “human rights” range from “the most fundamental—the right to life—to those that make life worth living, such as the rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty.” These rights are supposed to be “inherent to us all.” But this lofty ambition has[…]

Human Rights Experts Call For Withdrawal Of Biased UN Report

April 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Soft Power Imperialism, United Nations

by Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, published on Popular Resistance, March 31, 2023 BTW, I signed it too:) [jb] Alfred de Zayas, former UN Independent Expert on International Order, has joined other human rights specialists in condemning an “expert” report on Nicaragua published on March 2nd as being unprofessional, biased, incomplete and concocted to justify further coercive sanctions that will damage Nicaragua’s[…]

Updates from the Venezuelan Embassy Protectors

May 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Citizen Diplomacy, Featured, International Law, Venezuela

Photo from a Tweet by Answer Coalition at the DC Venezuelan Embassy earlier today: “They may have cut off our electricity, but they can never cut off our power.” ~ CODEPINK and Popular Resistance #Love4EPC #embassyprotectioncollective Posted by by Judith Bello, member of UNAC AC, May 11, 2019 For context, the right wing Venezuelan protestors remain outside the embassy[…]

Huge Defeat for Imperialists: The U.S. Broke Its Teeth in Venezuela

March 24, 2019 UNAC Editor Economic Blockade, Latin America, Poverty and Sanctions, Venezuela, Venezuela

By Alison Bodine, Published on Volume 13, Issue 3 of Fire This Time newspaper The miserably failed “humanitarian aid” delivery into Venezuela on February 23 is another nail in the coffin of the U.S. government’s coup attempt against President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian revolutionary process in Venezuela. Before this day, the U.S. government and their allies, including Canada, thought[…]