This is no joke: Venezuela — the most repressive regime in the Americas since the days of Argentina and Chile's military dictatorships in the 1970s — is expected to win a seat at the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council.
I almost choked on my coffee when I first heard about this in a recent interview with Ernesto Araujo, Brazil's foreign minister. But when I contacted several human-rights groups to see if such a travesty were possible, they all confirmed that it's likely to happen.
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