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Eliot Engel: “I find it very hard to understand that precisely when Chavez is setting up an alternative organization in the Americas…”

On the recordDecember 14, 2011
I find it very hard to understand that precisely when Chavez is setting up an alternative organization in the Americas called the CELAC, which excludes the United States but includes Cuba, we are considering a bill to undercut the OAS, where the U.S. is a member and has influence and where Cuba is excluded.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel criticizes undermining the OAS while Chavez creates a rival organization.

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