Chavez, in jab at US, suggests Latin America ditch OAS
AFP
CARACAS- President Hugo Chavez on Saturday warned Venezuela could leave the US-based Organization of American States, and that other Latin nations could ditch it and form a new regional body.
On the heels of an Inter-American Human Rights Commission report critical of Caracas, Chavez warned: "Venezuela could leave the OAS, and call on the peoples of the Americas to throw off those old instruments and establish an organization of Latin American countries, of free people."
"The OAS is a US bureaucracy (...) they condemn us -- Why don't they ever condemn Bush?" asked Chavez.
"Just a few days ago, the United States bombed innocent towns in Afghanistan and I don't know how many innocent women and children died. Somehow the commission missed that one," Chavez mused.
The rights report also highlighted human rights violations in Cuba, Colombia -- a US ally -- and Haiti, while urging the United States to end its 47-year-old economic embargo on Cuba.
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