ALBA Shuns OAS Intrusion in Venezuelan Affairs http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2011/february/21/latinamerica11022101.htm

 The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) irked with OAS General Secretary Jose Miguel Insulza intrusion in Venezuela''s affairs.Chilean Insulza said this week "he still waits for the Venezuelan Government's green light to his visit to probe human rights violation denounces." The communiqué of the member countries of ALBA -Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ecuador, Antigua and Barbuda and Venezuela- "rejects the OAS Secretary reiterated intrusion in the internal affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela" and urged to stop attacking the government of President Hugo Chavez.

"Insulza uses his office to support the strategy of a political minority of Venezuelans who challenge Venezuela's current democracy and governance. The General Secretary of a regional body is to serve its member countries and should never act as referee or court to judge domestic political affairs," stresses the document.They also urged the remaining members of the Washington-based OAS "to rein such dangerous retrogression to the times when the OAS served as an instrument for interventionism and colonialism in our continent."