Tag: Organization of American States
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Is Latin America still the US’s ‘backyard’?
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In late spring of 2008, the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations published a report titled “US-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality.” Timed to influence the foreign policy agenda of the next US administration, the report asserted: “the era of the US as the dominant influence in Latin America is over.” At…
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NLG letter to Venezuelan president Maduro on detention of left opposition leaders as presidential election approaches
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The National Lawyers Guild, the largest and oldest human rights bar association in the United States, has been a vocal supporter of the Bolivarian Project and its fraud-proof electoral process since we sent our first delegation to Venezuela in 2006. We have steadfastly opposed the longstanding drumbeat of illegal intervention by the United States in…