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Eliot Engel: “If we don't strengthen the OAS and if we start pulling back so that the United States does not have as much influence as…”

On the recordApril 24, 2012
If we don't strengthen the OAS and if we start pulling back so that the United States does not have as much influence as it does on the OAS, we are going to find that the alternatives are far worse.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel warns against diminishing U.S. influence in the Organization of American States.

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