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On September 18, Human Rights Watch released a report in Caracas that shows how President Hugo Chávez has undermined human rights guarantees in Venezuela. That night, we returned to our hotel and found around twenty Venezuelan security agents, some armed and in military uniform, awaiting us outside our rooms. They were accompanied by a man who announcedwith no apparent sense of ironythat he was a government "human rights" official and that we were being expelled from the country.
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