Organization of American States
by María Josefina Arce
The OAS, the Organization of American States, has once again openly shown its interfering essence. Now it is once again lashing out strongly against Venezuela, the reason: the recent general elections in the South American nation.
The discredited regional organization questioned the results of the elections, which, as we have already mentioned, took place in the midst of an intense media campaign by the ultra-right, supported by the United States.
The victory of the current president Nicolás Maduro, with 51.2% of the votes, does not please it, so it once again interferes in the internal affairs of a country, which does not belong to the OAS since April 2019 when its withdrawal process initiated two years earlier became effective.
On this occasion, it has issued a 23-page report to undermine the electoral process, which it described as lacking transparency.
He forgot that the Venezuelan authorities specified about the presence in national territory last Sunday of more than 700 international observers and of 1326 foreign and national journalists.
This is not the first time that Caracas has been at the center of attacks from the Organization of American States, whose Secretary General Luis Almagro, eight years ago, tried to apply the Inter-American Democratic Charter of the Organization against the South American country for alleged human rights violations.
It also openly supported, along with the United States, Juan Guaidó, who proclaimed himself Venezuela's interim president in 2019, in a new attempt to overthrow the democratically elected Nicolás Maduro.
The OAS has a long and dark history. It has supported military interventions and remained completely silent in the face of serious human rights violations throughout the hemisphere.
Always at the service of Washington, since its creation in 1948, it has played a deplorable role in coups against progressive governments in the countries of the region. Let us recall those that took place in Guatemala in 1954 and in Chile in 1973, among others.
Experts recall that it tolerated and even supported the military dictatorships in Latin America in the middle of the last century, which left tens of thousands of victims among the murdered, tortured and disappeared.
Now it has convened a meeting of its Permanent Council in Washington to discuss the electoral process in Venezuela, in a new colonialist and interventionist action.
