The OAS has always been a U.S. front group
and even though the U.S. nominee for OAS (Organization of American States), Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Luis Ernest Derbez, was rejected in favor of Chile´s Interior Minister José Miguel Insulza, the US has already started arm-twisting...
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An American proposal to create a committee at the Organization of American States that would monitor the quality of democracy and the exercise of power in Latin America is facing a hostile reception from many countries in part because it is being viewed as a thinly veiled effort to attack Venezuela.
ya think...? but, not to worry...
Roger F. Noriega, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs and a principal architect of the proposal, said in an interview this week that [...] "I am determined that it not be regarded as some kind of effort to isolate Venezuela."
o-o-o-ok... now, let's skip down a few paragraphs...
"The elected governments that do not govern democratically should be held accountable by the O.A.S.," he said as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stood beside him. Ms. Rice and other American officials had wrested that remark from him in exchange for American support for his candidacy.
oh, ok... so there wasn't any pressure...
meanwhile, the OTHER (lesser?) members of the OAS (presumably those who didn't have condi standing next to them, threatening to stomp them with her high-heeled boots if they talked out of line), had some THOUGHTS OF THEIR OWN...
"This explanation is going to be impossible to sell to any adult human being," said Rodolfo Hugo Gil, the Argentine ambassador to the Organization of American States.
Jorge Chen, the Mexican ambassador, said, "I don't think this idea will pass." Some Latin American ambassadors say they fear that the new committee will turn into a star chamber, where ministers would summon representatives of certain countries for interrogation and criticism.
aw, c'mon guys, that's the WHOLE DAMN POINT... Submit To Propeller
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An American proposal to create a committee at the Organization of American States that would monitor the quality of democracy and the exercise of power in Latin America is facing a hostile reception from many countries in part because it is being viewed as a thinly veiled effort to attack Venezuela.
ya think...? but, not to worry...
Roger F. Noriega, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs and a principal architect of the proposal, said in an interview this week that [...] "I am determined that it not be regarded as some kind of effort to isolate Venezuela."
o-o-o-ok... now, let's skip down a few paragraphs...
"The elected governments that do not govern democratically should be held accountable by the O.A.S.," he said as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stood beside him. Ms. Rice and other American officials had wrested that remark from him in exchange for American support for his candidacy.
oh, ok... so there wasn't any pressure...
meanwhile, the OTHER (lesser?) members of the OAS (presumably those who didn't have condi standing next to them, threatening to stomp them with her high-heeled boots if they talked out of line), had some THOUGHTS OF THEIR OWN...
"This explanation is going to be impossible to sell to any adult human being," said Rodolfo Hugo Gil, the Argentine ambassador to the Organization of American States.
Jorge Chen, the Mexican ambassador, said, "I don't think this idea will pass." Some Latin American ambassadors say they fear that the new committee will turn into a star chamber, where ministers would summon representatives of certain countries for interrogation and criticism.
aw, c'mon guys, that's the WHOLE DAMN POINT... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
5/22/2005
