Admit it. You don't know this country at all. You just showed it with splendor.
This article is not promoting anything. It is just FACTUAL! Read again, it says "this commission did this and its lawyer said that". It never says "we agree or we don't".
The fact that you attack the newspaper that gives his space to that people to speak is very revealing. It means that you're not a liberal at all. You are an authoritarian leftist which, for me, means that you are NOT a leftist. Why shouldn't they be allowed to speak? Even if they are totally wrong, there is space for saying that too. I just put the article and gave no opinion in the 1st post.
El Universal had nothing to do with the coup, your allegation makes absolutely no sense. Ask yourself why the venezuelan government hasn't prosecuted anyone from El Universal about the events of the 11th April 2002. I think you don't even know the people who own this newspaper or their political views. It is centrist, let's say right-centrist (like your democratic party by the way).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Universal_%28Caracas%29You're just obsessed with some other issues. Why should this lawyer speak about human rights violations in Honduras? He's dealing with this particular issue. You suggest he should file charges against every situation in Venezuela that would deserve it and even outside Venezuela, which is very absurd. You disqualify before you even try to understand. That is called propaganda.
How can you say the students in jail are right wing rioters? What supports that claim of yours? You're just repeating the exact words of Comandante, when he wants to describe Venezuela like a country simply divided between fascism and revolutionaries, which is a machiavelic lie. Wouldn't it be convenient for him to have a 100% nazi opposition he could fight against freely? Things are never black and white and you know that. I know that these students who were put in jail are from very diverse political backgrounds. Some are social(democrata)cristianos, some are socialdemocratas, some are left-radicals and some are socialists. That is the entire political 'spectrum' in Venezuela. You obviously don't know the country.
When you put 167 students and 350 union leaders in the same bag, calling them "thugs" without having studied all their cases minutiously and individually, you are acting exactly like what you call "rightwing hypocrites" who "have NO respect for human rights, civil rights, the rule of law or Constitutional government". You say this 500 people are GUILTY without even knowing who they are or what they did. You sound just like a fascist tribunal.
I suggest you try to read about our history and our socio political structures before making other comments concerning our actual situation. Just as a suggestion.