The human rights activist and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has attacked the actors Jamie Foxx and Lukas Haas for visiting Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, suggesting their presence in the country was connected to financial gain.
However, reports of human rights abuses are increasingly emerging from Venezuela, including illegal killings by police, mass detentions, mistreatment of detainees and forced evictions.
“Your recent participation in a propaganda campaign of the Venezuelan regime threatens to undo all the good work you’ve done and to tarnish your public image.”
Foxx met Maduro on Wednesday, with reports suggesting he “was there to support the country’s socialist revolution and attend the signing of an agreement between Venezuela and its allies for the construction of houses for the poor”.