Chavez: Venezuela Should Leave OAS Rights Body
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Monday that his government should pull out of the Organization of American States' human rights body, accusing it of acting in concert with the U.S. government.
Chavez said in a televised speech that he's asking a newly created Council of State to take up his proposal to immediately withdraw from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The Washington-based commission has repeatedly been critical of the human rights situation in Venezuela.
"We should have pulled out of that commission" already, the president said. He had previously expressed an interest in withdrawing from the rights commission in 2010.
He called the rights body a "sword of Damocles" and accused the U.S. government of using it to attack his socialist-oriented government.
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