US Acts a Fool at OAS Assembly - and Loses to Venezuela
Mr. Zoelnick here is as evil as he looks. He's the #3 professional dick at the State Dept. the US sent down for an annual OAS summitt of Latin/Carribean Foreign Minishers.
A article written by former Nicaraguan Consul General to Canada, Pastor Valle-Garay, now a scholar at York University in Toronto. He details how the US' mission at this weeks OAS Assembly meeting in Santo Domingo - to accuse Venezuela and further intimidate potential opposition to US plans in the region - faltered tremendously:
BY PASTOR VALLE-GARAY , University of York
TORONTO, Canada.- It's classically typical of the George W. Bush administration: more lost than a homeless dog. One has only to look at what happened to the under secretary of state in the Dominican Republic this past week.
Robert Zoellick, leading his country's delegation, arrived ill-prepared at the 36th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Santo Domingo. One would assume that a delegation leader would come to such events after thoroughly consulting with State Department experts. Not so.
Perhaps the issue is the OAS. Gringo proconsuls have traditionally attended the forum as if they were wearing the headdress of an arrogant Catholic archbishop. They would arrive and preach, and the servile flock would genuflect and vote in line with orders from the Vatican in Washington. Once the farce was concluded, masters and slaves would retire to
sip cocktails in the gringo's suite.
Things have changed. These days, Zoellick would barely say mass. Nobody is following his orders. Deaf ears to silly words. Perhaps it is because, in holding on to the last vestiges of their ignorant arrogance, Bush and company have not yet grasped our irreversible political changes. Our America is no longer the backyard of the White House. Period.
Perhaps it is because the State Department did not have the decency to warn the under secretary that Washington's negligence has cost it the miniscule support that it used to have in the hemisphere. Now Bush is as popular as a homeless dog.
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. One could speculate ad nauseum. The reality is that Zoellick underestimated the intelligence and determination of delegates not to let themselves be trampled over by imperialist political maneuvers.
During his speech, Zoellick made a fool of himself, thus confirming Washington's abysmal ignorance regarding hemispheric issues and international diplomacy. The gringo agenda began to collapse with a loud crash when Zoellick wrongly assumed that Brazil and Argentina would block Venezuela's entry onto the UN Security Council. That backfired. Both
nations announced their unconditional support for Venezuela's candidacy.
Zoellick also underestimated the hemisphere's diplomats when he urged a condemnation of Venezuela. He accused President Hugo Chávez of interfering in the Peruvian elections. The forum categorically rejected Zoellick's nonsense. When they got no support, Zoellick and Peru withdrew their accusations. Ironically, the OAS refusal represents a resounding and unequivocal slap in the face to Washington's crude interventionism in the hemisphere.
Desperate after these defeats, Zoellick tried to convince Brazil, Argentina and other nations to criticize President Chávez' "illusion of populism" and his influence in the hemisphere. Very stupid. Zoellick crashed against a solid wall of opposition. In unmistakable and direct diplomatic language, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Marín reminded Zoellick of "the importance of non-intervention."
Marín's statement made it clear that the OAS is not going to meddle in Venezuela's internal affairs. That was confirmed by the final resolution, which condemned all foreign intervention in the hemisphere. Without mentioning any particular country, the resolution is a subtle but obvious criticism of Washington's interventionism in Cuba, Venezuela,
Bolivia and Nicaragua.
Zoellick's audacity was further unmasked. The under secretary of state demanded that that OAS send "as soon as possible" an observer mission to Nicaragua to prevent the "old strongmen of corruption and communism who want to stay in power." According to Zoellick, Nicaragua needs "justice, transparence and direct and clear reports" regarding the upcoming November elections, when that Central American nation will elect its president and General Assembly representatives.
One of two possibilities: either the State Department misinformed Zoellick before he traveled to the Dominican Republic, or he was drunk when he made his demands. In a press conference in Managua, Patricio Fajardo, coordinator of the 33-member OAS election observer mission, stated this week that a group of eight technicians has been in Nicaragua since May 7 to monitor the elections. The head of the mission, Gustavo Fernández, also arrived there this week, accompanied by OAS special advisors; Nina Pacari, former Ecuadorian foreign minister; Ignacio Waker, of Chile; and Ana María Sanjuán, of Venezuela.
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It's always amazing who you on the Left reserve the term 'evil' for. And of course the irony is the list of evil people you refuse to label as such.
Moral confusion run amok.
The name of the brazilian foreign secretary is Celso Amorim, not Marin, dumbass.
I was only calling him evil because of the way that picture made him look. But maybe I was a bit harsh... But this kind of master-servant approach really is outlandish - and tI hate that nobodu knows or cares.
You called him evil - not just because of how the picture made him look. "...IS as evil as he looks."
He IS evil. Why do you dumb rightards have so much trouble accepting that?
Oh, I know. You NEVER like to call things by their true names. Black is white, wrong is right, day is night, and George Bush is really some kind of savior. YAWN.
Well put anon, your intellect is a testament to the Left.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - The United States welcomed friction between Venezuela and some of its regional neighbors on Sunday, the opening day of a meeting of the Western Hemisphere's top diplomatic body.
"It is encouraging that democracies in Latin American feel that Venezuela has been infringing on their own democratic process are speaking up on their own," U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick told reporters.
"This is not only Peru but Nicaragua and others," he said.
Zoellick's comments were his first to the media since he arrived in the Dominican capital for a three-day annual meeting of the Organization of American States.
He spoke after Peruvian Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua told a news conference he had vigorously denounced alleged Venezuelan meddling in Peru's electoral process during a meeting of OAS foreign ministers, and heads of delegations with OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza.
Maurtua said he had voiced Peru's "formal and categorical rejection of interventionist acts by President Hugo Chavez in Peru's internal politics."
Peruvian ex-army commander Ollanta Humala won vocal support from Chavez in the run-up to Sunday's elections.
But former Peruvian President Alan Garcia, who Chavez has openly derided as "corrupt," appeared headed toward an easy victory late on Sunday based on unofficial counts.
Maurtua, referring to what some are calling a growing anti-Chavez backlash across Latin America, suggested that Garcia had benefited handsomely from Chavez's support of Humala. It flew in the face of a jealously-guarded Latin American tradition of nonintervention, he said.
Garcia openly used Chavez's support for his opponent on the campaign trial, saying Peru threatened to become a virtual colony of Venezuela if Humala won power.
Chavez said in April that Venezuela would sever ties with Peru if Garcia won and the two countries have already withdrawn their respective ambassadors.
Nicaragua is also expected to complain about Chavez interfering in its upcoming presidential elections.
Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution shows how popular a government can be when it actually cares about its people. Unlike the terror regime in Washington (total surveillance of all Americans, torture, disappearances, illegal invasions of defenseless countries, and 'signing statements' exempting the White House from any and all law, utter loyalty to corporatism, i.e. fascism in the purest sense), when a government actually helps its people with TANGIBLE aid as opposed to empty rhetoric and propaganda the people respond. Chavez has, in fact, done more for AMERICA'S poor (see:
http://www.americans-for-chavez.com/Citgo.html) than our oil profit-bloated regime has. When a foreign head of state cares more about the fate of America's poor than the American government, obviously it is time for a change. --- Americans for Chavez, http://www.americans-for-chavez.com
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