Thank you, Mr. Chair.
You are representing two organizations that are exposing what is happening in Venezuela. You are there to collect information. You can witness the progress being made. Ms. Vaudry, you told us about several social and economic advances since Mr. Chávez is in power.
Since the coup in 2002, the international community gets the impression the society in Venezuela is becoming more and more polarized. You said among other things that 80% of the media are private. On the other hand, we are told that there are few independent media in that country, and that the vision of the Venezuelan reality is rather confused. Human Rights Watch, for example, has profound apprehensions about governmental control over the content of the media in Venezuela. We are also told corruption is pervasive and that the judicial system is subservient to the government.
You are working there, and you are on the ground. Tell us where this image we get of the Venezuela government is coming from.