OTTO J. REICH
It is not often that an ambassador of a foreign country publicly accuses a private U.S. citizen of being the ''architect'' of a coup d'état against a third country. Yet that is what happened recently when the Venezuelan ambassador to the Organization of American States, Roy Chadderton, charged me with orchestrating the removal of Honduras President Manuel Zelaya.
What would lead a diplomat to utter such fabrications?
First, we should remember that Chadderton is the envoy of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez, a lieutenant colonel who once tried to shoot his way into the Presidential Palace in Caracas, then reached power by disguising his intentions and now holds it by intimidation and deception.
Second, Chadderton stands for more than just Chávez. Speaking before an emergency session of the OAS Permanent Council, Chadderton represented a collection of the least democratic and, therefore, least successful nations in the Americas. It's a group invented in Havana, financed by Venezuelan oil money and self-described as the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas
What would lead a diplomat to utter such fabrications?
First, we should remember that Chadderton is the envoy of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez, a lieutenant colonel who once tried to shoot his way into the Presidential Palace in Caracas, then reached power by disguising his intentions and now holds it by intimidation and deception.
Second, Chadderton stands for more than just Chávez. Speaking before an emergency session of the OAS Permanent Council, Chadderton represented a collection of the least democratic and, therefore, least successful nations in the Americas. It's a group invented in Havana, financed by Venezuelan oil money and self-described as the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas
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