Ed Béchard Torres

Assistant Professor @LincAlexLawTMU | Socio-economic rights, LPE, business law | @LawMcGill @humanrightsnyu @cambridgelaw @SCC_eng 🇻🇪🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈(he/him)

[Olga Gonzalez-Silen @GonzalezSilen]

@LuluGNavarro This is a good article by Rebecca Hanson about the complex armed groups on the ground in Venezuela.

https://t.co/q3zWbIAhu7 via @ConversationUS

[Alejandro Velasco @AleVelascoNYU]

At this point, taking the actual operation, Trump’s press conference, and Delcy Rodriguez’s press conference into consideration, it seems fairly certain (though of course, unconfirmed) that Maduro was given up by the remaining government apparatus in a back channel deal. 1/x

[Court Challenges Programme contestation judiciaire @CcpPcj]

➡️ REMINDER - The Court Challenges Program's team will be holding 2 virtual information sessions this week. If you would like to know more about the application process, join us!

To learn more, please visit https://t.co/heBwH54Zbz

#constitutionalrights #humanrights #funding

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕Insights from Colombia's massive regularisation of Venezuelan forced migrants

Today on VoxDev, @svrozo @wb_research outlines the impact of Colombia's regularisation of forced migrants on labour markets, crime rates & more:
https://t.co/MoYQlIIWwD

[Ed Béchard Torres @EdBechardTorres]

Grateful for this one for sure

[Antulio Rosales @RosalesAntulio]

A month after the elections in Venezuela, things have deteriorated sharply in the country.

A 🧵for those who have lost track of what's going on.

[Orlando Avendaño @OrlvndoA]

Caracas.

[UHN Plus @UHN_Plus]

🇻🇪🇪🇸 | IMPRESIONANTE

¡Lleno total! Así se encuentra la Puerta del Sol de Madrid, en apoyo a María Corina Machado y a Edmundo González Urrutia.

[Joshua Collins @InvisiblesMuros]

All the Venezuelans protesting in hundreds of major cities all over the world today really shows the size of the diaspora

Especially in comparison with the population of VZ- nearly 8 million abroad, more than 25% of VZ's total population

[Oliver Stuenkel 🇧🇷 @OliverStuenkel]

Most European and US diplomats I spoke to don't think the mediation effort in Venezuela by Brazil, Colombia and Mexico will produce any tangible results, but it allows governments in Europe and North America to sidestep a problem that, most believe, probably has no solution 👇🧵

[UN Spokesperson @UN_Spokesperson]

The interim report of the UN Panel of Electoral Experts on #Venezuela has been shared with the National Electoral Council.

It can be accessed via the link below 👇

https://t.co/qCatXKhSP8

[Joshua Collins @InvisiblesMuros]

It's still imposing terror. But it's also an advertisement for all to see that no one in the working-class neighborhood supports Maduro

[Alex Neve @AlexNeve24]

Venezuela: Scale and gravity of ongoing crimes demand urgent actions from ICC prosecutor https://t.co/JwdpUO9Uxp

[Michael Reid @michaelreid52]

"In Latin America since Pinochet's time there hasn't been a repressive crackdown of such magnitude as has happened in Venezuela" since the election, says Provea, a human-rights group
https://t.co/peVJSLi05o via @elpais_america

[Alex Bare @alexbaretv]

Venezuela’s military counterintelligence agency posted a chilling video this morning of María Oropeza, a young organizer for the opposition campaign who they arrested on Tuesday.

Dozens of human rights defenders, journalists, and political activists have been rounded up so far.

[María Luisa Paúl @marialuisapaulr]

We reviewed 23,000+ tally sheets collected by Venezuela’s opposition; extracted their data; matched them w/ physical copies in secret locations; interviewed poll watchers, experts, pro-gov observers…

All this showed Edmundo González likely won twice as many votes as Maduro

[Orlando Avendaño @OrlvndoA]

🚨 | URGENT: For those outside, this is what is happening right now in Venezuela:

- The regime is kidnapping people from their homes for demonstrating against Maduro, for sharing discontent on social media, or for being electoral witnesses.

- It's checking the phones of people in the streets. If they find information that exposes them as opposition, people are arrested.

- The regime has launched an App and a phone line for Chavistas to denounce their anti-Chavista neighbors.

- The regime is threatening the media: no reporter or TV anchor can question the official narrative of the tyranny. The press must say that everything is normal.

[Crónica.Uno @CronicaUno]

#3Ago 10:53 am | Quienes ya se concentran en la avenida principal de Las Mercedes entonan el himno nacional y consignas contra Nicolás Maduro. "No quiero bono, no quiero Clap, yo lo que quiero es que se vaya Nicolás", corean.

[Joshua Collins @InvisiblesMuros]

"Maduro has lost the streets’: in Venezuela’s barrios, former loyal voters risk all in protests"

https://t.co/6UsjD85dqu

[victor garrido @vgarrido20]

El "PSICOTERROR" de Maduro no funcionó. Aquí estamos en Las Mercedes esperando instrucciones...