José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
In 2009, when Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by a polemical military coup, no one was so desperate for the OAS intervention as the Venezuelan government. Obviously, at that time was a Chavez ally who needed help and the Venezuelan President knew the more time Zelaya spent out of power, the harder he would return to office. So, Chavez called on all his allies to take a position as soon as possible, and pushed to such extremes on other governments that even Insulza fly in an aircraft as part of a dangerous counter-coup operation.
The same urgency showed Chavez for the intervention of the OAS when Rafael Correa was almost removed from power this year, in the police rebellion of September, but things change when indifference favors a revolutionary comrade. Now is Costa Rica who urges the OAS to mediate, and is Daniel Ortega -a Chavez friend- who benefits from the attitude of the current Venezuelan government. On November 12, 2010, the OAS voted unanimously to ask Costa Rica and Nicaragua to evacuate the disputed area for the moment and resolve the problem through dialogue; however, Nicaragua and Venezuela were the only two countries that voted against this resolution, and then Ortega announced that he would not abide it.
If he wanted, Chavez might influence his ally to take another position, but meanwhile the facts are imposed: The controversial dredging of the border river continues, which in practice would extend the rule of Nicaragua, as this country has by right the control of the San Juan river.
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what a such biased,right wing article!
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