Time was when the left in Latin America believed in human rights and welcomed outside pressure to secure them. Now that they are in power, the region's far-left populists bridle at any criticism, domestic or foreign, of their self-proclaimed revolutions. Led by Ecuador's Rafael Cor-rea, these governments have been campaigning to castrate the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (iachr) and its associated court, bodies that operate under the aegis of the Organisation of American States (oas). At an extraordinary meeting of the oas general assembly on March 22nd they failed, at least for the time being.
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