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Weekly Report - 05 September 2013 (WR-13-35)

Syria strike prompts conflicting response

Mooted foreign military intervention in Syria has triggered varied reactions across Latin America with Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro leading the chorus of condemnation from the radical left-wing bloc Alba. The rest of the region reacted in far more measured tones, which explained why last week’s Union of South American Nations (Unasur) summit in Suriname failed to mention Syria in its Declaration of Paramaribo. It was noteworthy that while Alba members vociferously accused the US of potential violation of international law, should it carry out a threatened military strike on Syria, they have stayed completely mute about Cuba’s actual violation of international law by covertly transporting matériel through the Panama Canal to North Korea, even in the wake of the publication of a report last week displaying the extent of Cuban subterfuge.

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