Maduro Regime Intensifying Repression in Venezuela, Says UN Human Rights Report

United Nations human rights experts say President Nicolás Maduro’s government has intensified its use of the “harshest and most violent” tools of repression in Venezuela in the wake of a disputed election in July. The U.N. report says Venezuela’s security forces, who are loyal to Maduro and the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, have carried out arbitrary detentions, torture, and sexual violence, which “taken as a whole, constitute the crime against humanity of persecution on political grounds.” The National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro, the socialist incumbent, the winner of the July 28 presidential election, despite evidence suggesting he had lost in a landslide to opposition candidate Edmundo González, who has now gone into exile in Spain....