Venezuelan CLAP Program

Delegation fights to win Alex Saab’s freedom

June 8, 2021 UNAC Editor Africa, Citizen Diplomacy, Lawfare, Venezuela

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, June 6, 2021 Sal Island, Cabo Verde Flounders took part in a delegation that traveled to Cabo Verde in solidarity with Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who was abducted in June 2020 on orders of the U.S. and held under onerous conditions since then on two of C.V.’s ten islands. Cabo Verde is an[…]

US Trying to Extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for the ‘Crime’ of Securing Food for the Hungry

June 1, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, International Law, Lawfare

by Roger. D. Harris, published on Resumen English, May 21, 2021 The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. This is according to Montréal-based international human rights lawyer John Philpot. He spoke on May 19 at a webinar sponsored by[…]