The United Nations hammers another nail in its credibility coffin

Electing Venezuela to its Human Rights Council, the United Nations hammered another nail into its credibility coffin on Thursday.

Winning a plurality of General Assembly votes, dictator Nicolás Maduro’s cronies received scattered applause. That applause reflects deeply on the organization from which it arrives. Maduro’s victory proves that the United Nations is fundamentally broken. Under his authoritarianism, Venezuela’s child mortality rate has skyrocketed and medicines have disappeared. Instead of exporting oil, of which it has the greatest proven reserves of any nation on Earth, Venezuela now turns its professionals into prostitutes and expels them to Colombia.