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| Subject: Pompeo calls for kicking Venezuela out of OAS and more sanctions Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:12 am | |
| Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday called for Venezuela to be suspended from the Organization of American States for crushing democracy and causing a humanitarian crisis that has driven millions of people from the country. Pompeo’s remarks at the opening of the OAS General Assembly reflected a renewed push to increase the economic and diplomatic cost of what Pompeo called the “dismantling of democracy” under President Nicolás Maduro. “That suspension is not a goal unto itself,” Pompeo said. “But it would show the OAS backs up its words with action and would send a powerful signal to the Maduro regime — only real elections will allow your government to be included in the family of nations.” Vice President Pence also called for the suspension of the “Maduro dictatorship” from the organization at a White House reception for OAS members Monday night, in advance of a Tuesday vote. Pence declared that the “once-great Venezuela is now a failed state.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pompeo-urges-kicking-venezuela-from-oas-and-more-sanctions/2018/06/04/32fbba1e-6806-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?utm_term=.3ee2e66f6ed4 |
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