CarwilBJ's Twitter Archive—№ 19,978

Caribbean Ambassador offers an important window into the OAS's role in the #VenezuelaCoup: "The reality is that the membership of the OAS is deeply divided, not over the troubling humanitarian, political and financial crisis in #Venezuela, but over the response to it."
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The Lima Group counts 14 votes at the OAS and is pushing a regime change position. Sometimes they can gather an 18 vote majority, but …
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When the Lima Group make the OAS speak for them "a trail of bitterness is left among the 15 others, particularly when it is known that governments have been cajoled and pressured to help attain the majority of 18."
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Meanwhile OAS Secretary General Almagro speaks and tweets in open hostility to the Venezuelan government, without consulting the OAS member states.
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"But, if Mr. Almagro is not reined in and his overreach not curtailed, many member-states will not tolerate it, and the organisation will be damaged irreparably. Governments, except the timid and the frightened, will not sit by idly while … their voices [are] disregarded."
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Quotes from Ronald Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organisation of American States: thenewtoday.gd/commentary/2019/01/28/the-oas-dangerously-in-disarray/#gsc.tab=0 #VenezuelaCrisis #OEA #OAS #VenezuelaCoup
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