RealClear World: Maduro’s Human Rights Farce

By Mackenzie France

Earlier this month, Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro suddenly discovered a concern for human rights. Maduro’s regime recently declared UN Human Rights chief Volker Türk persona non grata, a retaliatory gesture for the UN’s apparent failure to protect Venezuelan migrants deported from the US. The image of Maduro, a champion of jailing political opposition and crushing dissent, posing as a human rights hero would be laughable if it were not so dangerously cynical.