Anger at OAS demand for new elections
Venezuela rejects attacks on its democracy
VENEZUELA has hit back at the Organisation of American States’ (OAS) call for its suspension unless the government calls early elections.
In a report released on Tuesday, Washington-based OAS secretary-general Luis Almagro accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of systematically violating the OAS’s democratic charter.
And he backed right-wing opposition demands for a presidential election, a step it failed to achieve last year by the constitutional means of a recall referendum.
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