OAS respects Venezuela’s decision to postpone Chavez inauguration

Saturday, January 12th 2013 - 11:51 UTC

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Organization of American States Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, said in statements to the press that the hemispheric body “fully respects and how could it be otherwise the decision of the constitutional powers of Venezuela regarding the inauguration of the President of that country”. Read full article

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ChrisR
The head of the hemispheric institution said the Venezuelan state authorities ”chose a path that allows time for the situation to be ascertained and provides a waiting period for the President-elect to be sworn in again.“

Even if he is dead we see no reason why Dead Man Not Walking should not attain the throne, sorry, the Presidency, said the man with the hemispheric head.

You couldn't make this crap up unless you live in SA.
Jan 12th, 2013 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Venezuela's economy and civil society are in such a poor state that no one is willing to flick af any card of this ramshackle house of cards.

Because the whole thing will come crumbling down so fast that it would make the entire region look bad.

Either way the OAS is toothless as it rarely agrees on a lot. Insulza just highlighted how unimportant his role is.
Jan 12th, 2013 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
Constitutions are pointless in South America. The mean in incapacitated, will not recover and for all intense purposes is dead. Herein lays the problem when you worship and value a man over the concept of democracy......democracy losses and the man lives on.
Jan 13th, 2013 - 05:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Burn1938
I must admit that my first reaction was - what have you done Insulza ! Then I remembered that he was the only Latín leader who basically supported Paraguay following the legal impeachment of Lugo . Unlike the rest he came , saw and then gave his opinion . And , later , the OAS refused to impose sanctions on Paraguay . So , if he now made a mistakev, I forgive him ! Gracias por apoyar a Paraguay !
Jan 13th, 2013 - 03:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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