Venezuelans mourn Chavez but protests don't break

[Zorro]

Source: AP

Thousands of Venezuelans mourned the passing of President Hugo Chavez on the first anniversary of his death Wednesday, while National Guard troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets at anti-government activists who pressed on with street protests despite the commemorations.

Chavez's successor, President Nicolas Maduro, angrily announced that he would break off relations with Panama, which he accused of being a "lackey" of the U.S. in a conspiracy to topple his government through the daily protests that have left at least 18 dead since mid-February.

Maduro said he made the move because Panama asked for the Organization of American States to study the situation in Venezuela. Maduro considers the OAS to be dominated by Washington.

"We don't accept the interventionism of anyone, because our international policy is a policy of peace, of cooperation, of respect, of the anti-imperialist Latin American union," Maduro said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuelans-mourn-chavez-protests-dont-break-022342017.html

[Archae]

1. Maduro is losing it.

Panama is "in on the conspiracy" since the OAS (hardly a right-wing enclave,) wants to study the situation?

Maduro is heading down the same road Mugabe has gone.

[smokey775]

2. I guess it's Panama's turn to take the blame for Venezuela's problems.

Last week it was Colombia, the week before that, it was the US, who's next?
Canada? Britain? The Virgin Islands?

[geek tragedy]

3. Asking the OAS to study something is a

crime against humanity I guess.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Who doesn't know the OAS serves US corporate interests, anyway?

The Organization of American States (OAS) without the US. An Alternative
By Nil Nikandrov
Global Research, March 23, 2010
Strategic Culture Foundation 21 March 2010

The parties to the Ninth International Conference of American States, held in Colombia’s capital Bogota in late April 1948, signed an agreement on creating the Organization of American States, OAS, which Washington conceived as a Cold War instrument to fight “communist penetration” into the Western Hemisphere.

In the run-up to the conference the popular politician, Bogota Mayor Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was treacherously murdered by three shots in the back. His killing is still the CIA’s top secret. All documented evidence of the preparation and execution of the operation has been destroyed. Nonetheless, it follows from recollections by some of those involved in the operation that the CIA station in Colombia had referred to Gaitán as a “potentially dangerous” politician for the United States. He was seen as a likely winner of the next presidential election in the Latin American nation, which was absolutely unacceptable to the US President Harry Truman, who believed Gaitán to be Stalin’s “secret stooge”.

The assassination of the Colombian politician sparked people’s protests throughout the country. The OAS statutory documents were signed to the sound of machinegun fire and the sight of entire homes set ablaze. It was against that symbolic background that the regional organization came into being.

The Mexican city Cancun has recently played host to the 23rd summit of another Latin American organization, the Rio Group. The summit meeting took a sensational decision to set up yet another regional organization, – Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), or a Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. A future organization will basically differ from the OAS in that it will not comprise the United States and Canada. CELAC will be mostly centred on speeding up regional integration, defending common positions on the international scene and spreading Latin American and Caribbean identity.

More:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-organization-of-american-states-oas-without-the-us-an-alternative/18275

[Archae]

5. "Global Research" has no credibilty.

The cover story on their front page calls the Ukraine government right now "Neo-Nazi."

[Judi Lynn]

6. O.K., Archae. n/t

[geek tragedy]

7. OAS has its flaws, but it's childish to suspend

relations over suggesting it look at a matter.

[Zorra]

8. Why would the RWers stop protesting? They hated Chavez, and still do. nt