{"id":211690,"date":"2019-04-27T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T02:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=211690"},"modified":"2019-04-27T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T02:30:15","slug":"venezuelan-government-denounces-regional-oas-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/27\/venezuelan-government-denounces-regional-oas-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan government denounces regional OAS forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Hermosa manifestaci\u00f3n de alegr\u00eda de los hombres y mujeres de nuestra Patria. Estamos demostrando con moral y dignidad que Venezuela no es, ni ser\u00e1 colonia de ning\u00fan imperio. Nos fuimos de la OEA y JAM\u00c1S VOLVEREMOS. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jsKk05TveD\">pic.twitter.com\/jsKk05TveD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nicol\u00e1s Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicolasMaduro\/status\/1122259244198367232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>CARACAS, Venezuela \u2013 The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday staged a rally to celebrate its split with a key regional forum, the Organization of American States.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of Maduro attended the demonstration in the Venezuelan capital to denounce the 35-member OAS, whose council voted this month to recognize an envoy selected by opposition leader Juan Guaido. A minority of countries voted against the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Maduro started a two-year process to abandon the OAS, but Guaido this year asked the group to ignore the socialist leader and instead designate Gustavo Tarre as his own envoy.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and most other OAS member states recognize Guaido as Venezuela&#8217;s interim president, saying Maduro wasn&#8217;t legitimately re-elected last year. Maduro says the OAS is violating Venezuela&#8217;s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Also Saturday, ambassadors appointed by Guaido to represent him in the region gathered in Colombia to discuss ways to increase diplomatic pressure on Maduro, who retains the support of Venezuela&#8217;s military leadership and counts Russia and China among his allies.<\/p>\n<p>One of Guaido&#8217;s envoys, Julio Borges, said they planned to hold a similar event for opposition envoys in Europe in May.<\/p>\n<p>The Venezuelan opposition is preparing for nationwide marches on May 1 that it hopes will weaken Maduro&#8217;s hold on power in a country whose economy has been shrinking for years. The opposition blames Venezuela&#8217;s problems on corruption and mismanagement under Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez; supporters of Maduro say U.S. sanctions and other measures to isolate them are driving the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hermosa manifestaci\u00f3n de alegr\u00eda de los hombres y mujeres de nuestra Patria. Estamos demostrando con moral y dignidad que Venezuela &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":175028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-christopher-torchia","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211691,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211690\/revisions\/211691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}