Venezuela to leave OAS on April 27, 2019

Venezuelan Ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada

As of Saturday April 27, 2019 Venezuela will no longer be a member of the Organization of American States (OAS).

The Venezuelan Embassy in Dominica made the disclosure in a media release issued today, Thursday April 25, 2019.

“The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in the Commonwealth of Dominica, informs the Dominican people, and its authorities in general, that as of Saturday April 27, 2019 the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will definitely leave the OAS after having complied with all the requirements,” the release stated.

The process of Venezuela’s exit from the organization started in 2017 when Venezuela complained that the OAS has been acting against its own fundamental principles. It said the hemispheric organization had become an instrument for the domination and exploitation of the Venezuelan people “through legal contraptions, acts of hypocrisy and mediatic deceptions that, far from promoting democracy as it corresponds, impose servile governments to the empire.”

“Proof of this,” the release continues,”is that it intends to accept the participation of a false representative of Venezuela, named illegally, because it has the backing of the American government.”

Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations and alternative representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), Samuel Moncada, announced in early April that his nation would leave the OAS on April 27 in defiance of the “racist ‘Monroe Doctrine’” and United States President Donald Trump’s continued attempts to “run over the countries of the continent” with the help of OAS leadership. However, he said the move “will never defeat the ideas of our liberators,” and added that Venezuela “will always be an independent, free and sovereign nation!”

Moncada later tweeted, ” The path to war is to allow a Trump’s agent to occupy Venezuela’s chair in the OAS in order to request an invasion for ‘humanitarian reasons’. That process has already begun with Almagro’s [OAS Dtrector-General] support who lies to the entire world about what has never been decided.”

A week earlier, the OAS director released a statement calling the self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela, Juan Guiado, the country’s “legitimate President.” Almagro said this is so based on a Jan. 10 OAS member vote “to not recognize the legitimacy of Nicolas Maduro’s new term.”

The resolution passed 19-6 with eight abstentions and one absence.

“The Permanent Council has no authority to recognize governments; the decision is a null propaganda act… It has never had that power and even less so has it tried to impose it with 18 votes or simple majority,” responded Moncada in a tweet in reference to the OAS pronouncements.

The release from the Venezuelan Embassy in Dominica states, “In this sense, the Venezuealn people, with joy and defense of their right to live in peace, will be mobilized in support of the legitimate, constitutional and democratically elected government of President Nicolas Maduro Moros.

“For the respect of international law and the peace of our people, we will overcome,” it concludes.

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9 Comments

  1. Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
    April 27, 2019

    Who cares Venezuela is not a democracy and are in violation of all the OAS stands for in the following:
    Get out of Dominica also.
    The purpose of the OAS is as follows:
    To strengthen the peace and security of the continent:
    To promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of nonintervention:
    To prevent possible causes of difficulties and to ensure the pacific settlement of disputes that may arise among the Member States:

    To provide for common action on the part of those States in the event of aggression:
    To seek the solution of political, juridical, and economic problems that may arise among them:
    To promote, by cooperative action, their economic, social, and cultural development:
    To eradicate extreme poverty, which constitutes an obstacle to the full democratic development of the peoples of the hemisphere:
    And to achieve an effective limitation of conventional weapons that will make it possible to devote the largest amount of…

  2. Karl Orndem
    April 26, 2019

    Good for you Venezuela. do not let America dictate how you present or represent yourself. Bravo to you and the best of luck on your recovery to economic stability. Notice the price of oil hasnt gone back up to what it was before around 2015/2016. But we dont hear from ISIS anymore. Initially they had said it was because ISIS had control over the oil fields and were selling oil to raise money, they would severely cut the price of oil to curb that. this is what crippled Venezuela’s economy.

    • Sense out of nonsense
      April 27, 2019

      Bro you need to update your propaganda. The oil excuse isn’t being used anymore. It’s the US sanctions that’s crippling the economy. Also the US used a cybernetic attack to bring down the electric grid causing widespread outages which resulted in millions of dollars in loss.

  3. Lord help us
    April 26, 2019

    Well then, what could possibly go wrong?

  4. LaPlaine Ovserver
    April 26, 2019

    Desperate times calls for desperate measures. The ground is sinking from beneath the corrupt Maduro cabal and they will exhaust every avenue to hold on to power. Only a corrupt government would support this unimaginable suffering that is perpetrated on the venezuelan people.

  5. RandyX
    April 26, 2019

    Wouldn’t be surprised if Dominica was next. Skerrit learned all the bad things, which he didn’t know already, from his father Chavez. Result: corruption everywhere you look, unfair elections, opaqueness of government, influence of the police force and courts, persecution of political opposition and a pseudo socialism that could never work in DA.

  6. 小帕
    April 25, 2019

    “VEXIT”? :lol:

  7. Bwa-Banday
    April 25, 2019

    Good Riddance. Just remember that Juan Guido IS the legitimate president and Mad Maduro will be Skerro’ cellmate in the USA soon.

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