By Prensa Latina,
Quito : Ecuador’s Permanent Human Rights Assembly (APDH) denounced the partiality of the US organization Human Rights Foundation, and questioned its work in defense of citizens’ rights.
Where was that group during the tough years of repression in this country? wondered APDH spokesman Alexis Ponce, adding that the US organization is only present in countries with leftwing governments.
Ponce’s statements came after the Human Rights Foundation accused the incumbent government of Rafael Correa of alleged human rights violations.
According to Ponce, it is suspicious that the Foundation’s reports mainly deal about three countries: Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela.
However, he pointed out, no denunciations have been made of the situation of untried inmates at the military base in Guantanamo, a territory illegally occupied by the United States.
This is proof of the group’s clear intentions to destabilize certain processes and governments that do not please some circles close to the White House’s financial and economic power, Ponce noted.
Therefore, the APDH questions the organization’s impartiality and does not recognize the Human Rights Foundation’s denunciations of human rights violations.
Ponce pointed out that the Foundation, as President Correa denounced, is made up of extreme-right personages such as Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Harry Wu, Armando Balladares and Carlos Alberto Montaner.
In a speech last Saturday, Correa rejected a letter from the Human Rights Foundation in which the organization said the Reform Act for Tax Equality allegedly violates the Ecuadorian citizens’ rights.