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Related: About this forumAndres Oppenheimer: U.S. wins rare diplomatic battle in Latin America
Something very unusual happened at the 34-country Organization of American States (OAS) annual foreign ministers meeting last week: the United States and Mexico won a diplomatic victory over authoritarian populist governments that wanted a free hand to suppress human rights monitors and critical media.
Its a rare occurrence, because Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and other members of their radical-populist ALBA alliance often backed by bigger countries such as Brazil and Argentina had been steadily winning ground in recent years in their offensive to weaken OAS human rights and freedom of the press monitoring groups.
But at the OAS annual meeting held Wednesday-Friday in Guatemala, an ALBA-backed Ecuadorean motion to paralyze the OASs Inter-American Human Rights Commission was soundly defeated in a secret vote.
Ecuadors failed offensive against the seven-member Inter-American Human Rights Commission a semi-independent OAS agency that is highly respected by independent human rights groups was seeking to paralyze it by electing three new members including an Ecuadorean official and other pro-ALBA candidates.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/08/3439479/andres-oppenheimer-us-wins-rare.html
Judi Lynn
(160,663 posts)Once again, shoddy journalism from the Schloppenheimer
April 24, 2013 Sabina Becker
If you ever wonder why I dont think very highly of Andrés Oppenheimer, the Miami Horrids little scribbler of untruths and inanities on all things Venezuela, maybe this will provide you some clues. He is, among other things, a rude and disingenuous little shit:
You made statements which dont correspond to reality, maybe youre misinformed, said the parliamentarian, addressing Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer, upon being blown away by Ortega, cut the interviewees audio, and made excuses, saying: A public apology to Venezuelan deputy Calixto Ortega for Skype being down when we were talking.
The video was shown by the host of VTVs Dossier, Walter Martínez, who commented: How nice another worthy example of the garbage of Fox News and CNN, that Señor Oppenheimer.
http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/04/once-again-shoddy-journalism-from-the-schloppenheimer.html
Zorro
(15,756 posts)did the rude and disingenuous little shit report in the article?
Obviously you can point them out, since you made such a strong assertion.