nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200522-133136-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200522s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200522-133136-0 doi eng 342 23 Casal Hernández, Jesús María Author aut States of Emergency without Rule of Law: The Case of Venezuela Casal Hernández, Jesús María Verfassungsblog 2020-05-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Nicolás Maduro, who still holds the presidency, declared a state of alarm on March 13, 2020, invoking the need to counter the pandemic. However, the corresponding decree not only contradicts the constitutional provisions for states of exception but is also being employed to impose abusive limitations on human rights, to aggravate political repression and persecution, to blur the seriousness of certain socio-economic problems, and to contain social protests. The absence of judicial and parliamentary controls that could counteract these excesses of power has resulted in an autocratic shift within a context that was already authoritarian. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Coronavirus COVID 19 Human Rights State of Emergency Morales Antoniazzi, Mariela Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/states-of-emergency-without-rule-of-law-the-case-of-venezuela/ raw object