Yesterday’s
vote in the OAS “not to recognize the legitimacy” of Nicolás Maduro’s new term
in office was too narrow to be considered a victory for anyone: 19 yes votes
against 15 nations that did not sign on. Furthermore, consider the democratic credentials
of some of the governments that supported the resolution: Brazil’s Jair
Bolsonaro who has talked fondly of torture and murder of adversaries and
considers members of the environmental movement in the Amazon region as “terrorists”;
Honduras’s Juan Orlando Hernández whose re-election last year was widely
considered fraudulent, even by the OAS itself, and whose close family members are
big-time narco traffickers; Chile’s Sabastián Piñera – the two main parties
that backed his presidential candidacy were closely tied to the Pinochet
government; Colombia’s Iván Duque whose party is led by Alvaro Uribe with his
well-documented ties with narco traffickers and military and paramilitary
forces responsible for massive land dispossession; the Paraguay government
which is in power thanks to a soft coup. If you subtract these votes from the
OAS tally, the resolution against Venezuela was defeated. Yesterday, RT
interviewed me on the subject.
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