Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Madam, for your presentation.
You outlined some very salient points about what's taking place and a very complex series of actions as well, which we are trying to get some handle on as a committee.
You went on at length about the issues of rule of law and independence of the judiciary, which we know and have read about, the fact that since the 2002 coup there has been a real politicization by the government to bring forward members of both the army and the separate army that they have in place as well in Venezuela, which does the bidding of the government. So I can see why there would be some issues about investigation, particularly of those people.
But in the other part of the rule of law, which is the judiciary, they have also appointed a whole series of members, who they call revolutionary socialist judges, to the courts, particularly to the Supreme Court and so forth. And I think they have even expanded the Supreme Court to allow for those additional members.
I'm trying to figure out, when we talk about the polarization of society, how extensive is it? What are the abilities of those in the opposition, for example, to question those appointments, from the legislative perspective, from the societal perspective, and from the NGO perspective? What role do they have in terms of questioning both the rule of law there, and those judicial appointments? Is there any space at all for them to even have any type of democratic voice to express their concerns about some of these human rights violations?