Posted on 09/12/2014 3:43:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Venezuela's socialist government has quietly secured the backing of Latin America and the Caribbean to obtain a diplomatic trophy that long eluded the late Hugo Chávez: a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
The unanimous endorsement of Venezuela's candidacy to represent the region on the Security Council came at a closed-door meeting July 23 in New York, said Amin Cruz, a diplomat at the U.N. from the Dominican Republic, which presided at the meeting.
When Chávez last tried for a seat in 2006, the United States succeeded in torpedoing his campaign. This year, Washington has been mum.
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
...a corrupt tyrannical nation rife with corruption and a starving population shouldn’t be leading anything...
“...a corrupt tyrannical nation rife with corruption and a starving population shouldn’t be leading anything...”
Nor should Venezuela.
Once again, I hope I don't have to remind anyone here about the on-going repression happening in Venezuela, or how this demonstrates the moral bankruptcy and degeneracy of the, so-called, "United Nations."
Nevertheless, I have to repeat, my sincere and Conservative hope that whomever becomes the next genuine President of the United States will scrub the State Department from top to bottom, as it is decades overdue.
So... if the are allowed to join the U.N. can they then get some toilet paper ?
US out of the UN
UN out of the US
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