(Reuters) – U.S. Assistant Secretary of State For Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols on Wednesday urged Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and foreign governments to acknowledge Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner of Sunday’s election.

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The OAS again

This is not the first time that Caracas has been at the center of attacks from the Organization of American States, whose Secretary General Luis Almagro, eight years ago, tried to apply the Inter-American Democratic Charter of the Organization against the South American country for alleged human rights violations.

It also openly supported, along with the United States, Juan Guaidó, who proclaimed himself Venezuela’s interim president in 2019, in a new attempt to overthrow the democratically elected Nicolás Maduro.

The OAS has a long and dark history. It has supported military interventions and remained completely silent in the face of serious human rights violations throughout the hemisphere.

Always at the service of Washington, since its creation in 1948, it has played a deplorable role in coups against progressive governments in the countries of the region. Let us recall those that took place in Guatemala in 1954 and in Chile in 1973, among others.

Experts recall that it tolerated and even supported the military dictatorships in Latin America in the middle of the last century, which left tens of thousands of victims among the murdered, tortured and disappeared.