Roy Chaderton: Withdrawal of Venezuela from the OAS expresses reverse of US hegemonic policy - MPPRE

Roy Chaderton: Withdrawal of Venezuela from the OAS expresses reverse of US hegemonic policy

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela makes effective, this Saturday, April 27, its definitive withdrawal from the Organization of American States (OAS), at the end of two years after the denunciation made to the Charter of the multilateral organization in its article 143, motivated by the disrespect for Venezuelan sovereignty and the signaling of the OAS as a political instrument for interference and intervention by member states. In an exclusive interview with the Venezuelan News Agency, Roy Chaderton, who was the country’s permanent representative to the organization between 2008 and 2015, said that this sovereign decision is an invaluable opportunity that expresses the reverse of the United States’ hegemonic policy. “The OAS is resulting small to them”, he said. “The mere fact of being outside the OAS, of getting out of there, is oxygenating, it is the perfecting of a process and a heroic battle that we have been waging through the revolutionary process to free ourselves, we are paying tribute to the Liberator and all the liberators of Venezuela and the continent”, said the Venezuelan diplomat. Chaderton recalled that the US interventionist policy deployed in the OAS was a failure from the beginning because they never obtained enough votes for the approval of the alleged resolutions promoted by some countries for the application of the Inter-American Democratic Charter against Venezuela. On the contrary, in this forum he highlighted the support to the country by Central American and Caribbean nations, in the midst of the interventionist pretensions. And now, with its formal withdrawal, Venezuela leaves “a very large gap” to the structure of the international organization. When asked about the possibility of a denunciation against the OAS, by other member countries, Chaderton pointed out that acording to the logic of the events that have been developing, this scenario along with any other expression of solidaritycould occur. In his opinion, the situation of the multilateral organization has a correlation in the USA. as a former imperial power. “They are in a deteriorating scenario, while others are growing and strengthening such as the Russian Federation, China, India, Turkey”. He thinks that the next step that Venezuela will take will be the strengthening of peace and regional integration as part of an “unceasing and far-reaching struggle” aligned with what the the people, who aspire to be free, demanded. He also stressed that the departure of Venezuela from the OAS, by its own choice, occurs while the country presides over the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (NAM). “We are leaders of an international institution that has more than 150 countries and where there is a majority in solidarity with Venezuela”, he added. A history of shame The Venezuelan diplomat recalled that the constituent assembly of the OAS, in 1948, emerged in the context of the murder of Colombian leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán and the social phenomenon known as El Bogotazo. “Since then it was a history of irregularities linked to US interests”, he said. “All its history is full of shame, shameful governments and perfidious stories, but I think the most treacherous of all has been the period of the General Secretary of Mr. (Luis) Almagro”, who dedicated himself along with the US government to promote unusual policies against Venezuela. Supported by the OAS, the US governments of Donald Trump and Barack Obama undertook unilateral sanctions and coercive measures against the country. The maneuvers goes from the creation of the so-called Lima Group to the disrespect of the OAS statutes by accepting a supposed representative of the country before the agency, Gustavo Tarre Briceño, appointed by the self-proclaimed Juan Guaidó. “The Lima Group is the OAS in small, the OAS, in which no support could be obtained against Venezuela, moves to Lima and, being smaller and not needing a vote similar to Washington, they afford to condemn us”, he says. Regarding the appointment of Tarre Briceño, he pointed out that it is another maneuver that seeks to show a supposed normality “to give the impression that nothing has happened” when what really happened is that a legitimate State like Venezuela formally requested its retirement, which is specified in response to the hostile and biased nature of the multilateral organization against the Venezuelan people.