The Venezuelan Truth Commission, by Gustavo Tarre

"...In Venezuela, the National Constituent Assembly—convened by President Nicolás Maduro in violation of the Constitution and whose election has been denounced as clearly fraudulent—has created a “Commission for Truth, Justice and Public Tranquility,” a sort of court of inquisition, with extensive investigative and sanctioning powers.

So that there is no doubt about the nature of the National Constituent Assembly, all of its members belong to or sympathize with the ruling party, in a country in which the opposition won a two-thirds majority in the last parliamentary election and recent polls show a rejection of the regime that exceeds 80 percent.

This commission, which undermines the essence of truth commissions, has been almost unanimously rejected by the opposition, by civil society, and by the international community. The nongovernmental organization Transparency Venezuela has pointed out that instead of a truth commission, the Commission for Truth, Justice and Public Tranquility is actually a “revenge commission” that seeks to persecute the political opposition and those who dare to think differently...."

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https://www.csis.org/analysis/venezuelan-truth-commission