The Venezuelan government termed on Thursday "selective and political" the annual paper on human rights in the world, delivered by the US Department of State, which reports on corruption and repression in Venezuela.

Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States Bernardo Álvarez said in a communiqué that the report has been "written in a selective, political manner," Efe quoted.

The Embassy of Venezuela "denounces the political nature of this document and emphasizes that the emerging participatory democracy system, as well as the determined campaign against poverty, inequity and social exclusion launched more than a decade ago, have enhanced political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Venezuelan people."

In the diplomat's view, "thanks to dramatic reduction of poverty and to a government system that is resolutely expanding ways of involvement, Venezuela has gone from an electoral democracy to a citizen's democracy."

The report authored by the US Department of State and submitted on Thursday to the US Congress, lists a number of human rights abuses which, in its view and according to human rights advocates, are committed in Venezuela.