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Concurrently, new inter-American institutions are being created that exclude the United States and Canada. What happened at the OAS General Assembly was another very sophisticated step.

“It is shameful that Chavez’s actions to usurp power and impose Castro-style control over the media have been met with barely a whimper from most member-states of the Organization of American States, an organization that is supposed to promote and protect democracy in the Western Hemisphere.”

Chávez’s record of providing money, arms, political support, and, yes, safe haven to groups waging a murderous war against a sovereign state openly violates international law. If the United States and our neighbors fail to muster a meaningful response to Colombia’s latest evidence and formal appeal for help, they will share the blame for giving Chávez’s bandit regime a license to kill.

The United States is giving strong backing for Colombia’s call for an international investigation of FARC activities in Venezuela, and says the government in Caracas has an obligation to cooperate. The comments follow what was termed here a “fact-based” Colombian presentation to the Organization of American States (OAS) Thursday about the alleged presence of some 1,500 FARC guerrillas on Venezuelan soil.

Colombia has asked the Organization of American States to hold a meeting of its permanent council to address Bogota’s accusation that leftist guerrillas are hiding in neighboring Venezuela.

Although Clinton refuses to admit the Obama administration’s mistake in condemning Honduras’ legal ouster of Chavez supported Zelaya, she at least says Honduras should be readmitted to the OAS.

State legislators challenging their own state in international court? Expect more of this as the left looks to sympathetic groups like the UN and the OAS to chip away at American sovereignty.

Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is promising to crack down on a wave of violence that has gripped his country, including the killing of at least six journalists recently.