On
May 29, the OAS panel of “independent experts” convened in
Washington to build the case for toppling the Bolivarian government
and prosecuting Maduro at the International Criminal Court.
by
Elliott Gabriel
Part
2 - The OAS: Washington’s “Ministry of Colonies”
Chief
among the tools used by Washington in its withering economic siege on
Venezuela is the OAS. Formed at the dawn of the Cold War in 1948, the
OAS was conceived for the purpose of providing the nations of the
Western Hemisphere with the ability to settle disputes through
mediation, arbitration, dialogue and good-faith peace-building
measures.
Since
then, however, the Washington-based OAS has come to be regarded as a
vulgar tool of U.S. imperialism – earning the title of the “U.S.
Ministry of Colonies” from Havana following post-revolutionary
Cuba’s expulsion from the body in 1961.
As such,
it is now being wielded for the express purpose of effecting “regime
change” in Caracas, a move that would not only remove a major
regional obstacle to U.S. domination of the region but would also
open the door to the exploitation of Venezuela’s massive crude oil
deposits – as well as its people – by Western multinational
corporations.
On May
29, the OAS panel of “independent experts” convened in Washington
to build the case for toppling the Bolivarian government and
prosecuting Maduro at the International Criminal Court (ICC). As
journalist Max Blumenthal said: “The panel comprised a
collection of aggressive advocates of regime change in Venezuela. I
attended the event to question the self-proclaimed experts on their
ulterior agenda and the absurd contradictions behind their claims to
support universal human rights.”
Let’s
look at one example of such absurdity, as embodied by former Canadian
Justice Minister, human rights celebrity, and “independent expert”
Irwin Cotler.
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