[Peace-discuss] Venezuela denounces U. S. interventionism before the OAS.

[Phil Stinard]

Here is my translation of an article that just appeared in the Venezuelan 
press.  The original in Spanish is at:  
http://www.venpres.gov.ve/poli/poli1.htm#Maisto

There are other, much longer and more precise articles on the exact charges 
that were leveled against the U. S. by Venezuela, and if I find the time to 
translate them, or if I find a translation in English, I'll pass them along.

--Phil Stinard

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“The response of John Maisto is nervious and defensive.”

Caracas, April 1.  Venpres (Xiomara Borges).-For Deputy (MVR) Nicolás 
Maduro, the response of U. S. ambassador to Venezuela John Maisto before the 
Organization of American States (OAS) “is a nervous and defensive response 
to strong, coherent and well-founded arguments given by the ambassador of 
Venezuela before the OAS, Jorge Valero.”

This Wednesday, ambassador Valero denounced before the afore-mentioned 
international organism that the White House was spending millions of dollars 
to try to overthrow President Hugo Chavez, a charge that was rejected by 
Maisto, who called it “irresponsible accusations.”

With respect to that, Nicolás Maduro said that “ambassador Valero went to 
the point, and with proof in hand and with very clear arguments, 
demonstrated what has been the interventionism of Bush’s government against 
the democratic political process of Venezuela and against the government of 
President Hugo Chavez.”

He indicated the manner in which the Venezuelan political opposition has 
been financed and the factors that resulted in the coup in April of 2002, 
and said that against Venenezuela there is a policy similar to what which 
they applied to the Haitian democracy that ended in the kidnapping of 
President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

Venezuela went for the middle road with a clear discourse, and what they 
asked for was that the OAS assume a preponderant role in denouncing, 
investigating, and punishing U. S. government intervention against a 
government legitimately and democratically elected, and that the acts of 
destabilization by the U. S. government must not be permitted to recur.

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