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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 21 September 2018

VENEZUELA: Intervention in Venezuela has different faces

The Venezuelan government reacted to comments by Secretary General Luis Almagro of the Organization of American States (OAS) this week by claiming that the US was planning a military intervention in Venezuela under the cover of the OAS. Almagro did not overtly support military intervention but he did say that it should not be excluded as an option. Given the long and chequered history of military intervention in Latin America, it was not surprising that the majority of the region’s government’s reacted by criticising his remarks. Almagro insisted his comments had been taken out of context and that he was fully committed to exhausting all diplomatic options. The debate distracted attention from another intervention in Venezuela which is happening right now: an economic intervention by China. President Nicolás Maduro returned from a visit to Beijing this week, the upshot of which appears to be greater control of Venezuela’s resources by China.

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