Chavez Rejects Report Citing Rights Violations/ Venezuela abandona la CIDH

President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that Venezuela should boycott the Organization of American States' human rights body, saying the panel wrongly accused his government of political repression. Chavez took issue with a report issued this week by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which cited widespread human rights violations in Venezuela. The socialist leader called the 300-page report ''pure garbage'' and described the commission's president, Santiago Canton, as ''excrement.''.( full information)/ El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, anunció este jueves que su país abandonará la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), dependiente de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), después de que publicase un informe crítico con su Gobierno. Para Chávez, el organismo es "pura basura" al servicio del "imperio" ( informacion completa)