Human Rights

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has in the past traded oil to Cuba for advanced doctors to improve health care and the standard of living in Venezuela. They also have opened up free medical clinics around the nation.
Hugo Chavez has pledged that their will be more funding for hospitals and better health care throughout the nation. Also underpaid doctors would be paid at the same rate as doctors in Cuba.

Human rights abuse in Venezuela There have been many Human rights violations in Venezuela included unlawful killings, disappearances reportedly involving security forces, torture and abuse of prisoners, harsh prison conditions, arbitrary arrests and detentions and attacks on the independent media. There is a lack of government involvement with the human rights conditions in Venezuela. The U.S. strategy for promoting democracy and human rights in Venezuela is to support the effort of the country’s citizens to strengthen independent civil society. Venezuela has little interest in a democracy and focus on running a more social government.
Economic sanction is when actions taken by one nation or group of nations to harm another economy, nation or group, often to force a political change. An example of this in Venezuela is significant trade relationship with Cuba undermined the U.S. policy of isolating Cuba, and long-running ties between the U.S. and Venezuelan militaries were severed on Chavez’s initiative. Humanitarian intervention refers to the threat or use of force across state borders by a state (or group of states) aimed at preventing or ending widespread and grave violations of the fundamental human rights of individuals other than its own citizens.