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Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Dictatorship, Dimming Vision of World Affairs, Ecuador, foreign correspondents, foreign news coverage, human rights, human rights reports, Latin America, Nicaragua, South America, State Department, State Department Human Rights Country Reports, U.S. news coverage, United States, Venezuela, Yemen August 11, 2012

New authoritarian states in Latin America seek to weaken regional human rights commission and court; Venezuela gives notice of withdrawal from Inter-American Court of Human Rights

In Latin America, a concerted effort has been underway to weaken the effectiveness of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of…