jat
2017-07-03 02:29:22 UTC
Woody Allen famously said “showing up is 80 percent of life.” The same
might be said for diplomacy, but last week Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson decided to skip the annual meeting of the Organization of
American States (OAS) in Cancun, Mexico, dispatching his deputy instead.
At the meeting, the United States and like-minded nations failed in an
attempt to call out Venezuela’s accelerating descent into chaos and
autocracy. The resolution fell short by three votes, blocked by
Venezuela’s ideological allies in South American and by small nations in
the Caribbean and Central America, many of them longtime beneficiaries
of Venezuelan oil largesse. As a former oil executive who had previously
done business in Venezuela, Tillerson presumably understands how
President Nicolás Maduro has used his country’s resources as economic
leverage over his neighbors.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/30/the-united-states-cant-go-it-alone-in-venezuela-oas/
might be said for diplomacy, but last week Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson decided to skip the annual meeting of the Organization of
American States (OAS) in Cancun, Mexico, dispatching his deputy instead.
At the meeting, the United States and like-minded nations failed in an
attempt to call out Venezuela’s accelerating descent into chaos and
autocracy. The resolution fell short by three votes, blocked by
Venezuela’s ideological allies in South American and by small nations in
the Caribbean and Central America, many of them longtime beneficiaries
of Venezuelan oil largesse. As a former oil executive who had previously
done business in Venezuela, Tillerson presumably understands how
President Nicolás Maduro has used his country’s resources as economic
leverage over his neighbors.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/30/the-united-states-cant-go-it-alone-in-venezuela-oas/
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Knowledge will set you free
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Knowledge will set you free
El conocimiento te hará libre