{"id":82170,"date":"2019-11-21T20:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=82170"},"modified":"2019-11-21T20:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:03:04","slug":"commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Double standards in the OAS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/b><\/p>

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(The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)<\/i><\/p>\n

Double standards have become the new system in the Organization of American States (OAS).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This unwholesome development does not portend well for the future of the Organization which is increasingly becoming a rubber stamp for the will of a few governments.\u00a0\u00a0It also creates a huge cloud over the bilateral relations of nations within the hemisphere.<\/p>

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This undesirable development was brought into stark and glaring reality over events in Bolivia.\u00a0\u00a0The Permanent Council of the OAS, the Secretary-General, Luis Almagro, and the governments that are usually quick to lambaste other governments on human rights issues, have all been silent in what has been happening in Bolivia, starting with the coup d’\u00e9tat of October 20 that forced the elected President, Evo Morales, from office and into asylum in Mexico.<\/p>

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The Organization and Secretary-General Almagro have said nothing about the gross human rights violations against the indigenous people of Bolivia.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least eight young Bolivians were killed on Tuesday (November 19) when the country\u2019s political crisis exploded into deadly violence in the city of El Alto. Nearby lay another five bodies, their feet poking from blankets or flags, their names and ages printed on A4 sheets placed on top of the corpses. \u201cJoel Colque Patty, 22\u201d; \u201cDevi Posto Cusi, 34\u201d; \u201cAntonio Ronald Quispe Ticona, 23\u201d; \u201cClemente Eloy Mamani Santander, 23\u201d; \u201cJuan Jose Tenorio Mamani, 23\u201d, reported the British Newspaper, the Guardian.\u00a0\u00a0The report continued: \u201cThe rightwing interim government that took power after Morales\u2019 toppling on 10 November has rejected claims the army was behind Tuesday\u2019s killings, which came during confrontations between troops and Morales loyalists outside a fuel storage depot the latter had been blockading.\u00a0\u00a0But in El Alto \u2013 a teeming high-altitude city near La Paz long considered a Morales stronghold \u2013 locals are adamant the government is to blame for what they call a massacre of innocent workers\u201d.<\/p>

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What the Guardian newspaper reporter, Tom Phillips, in El Alto, knows must also be known to governments of OAS member states who have Embassies is Bolivia and nearby countries.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yet, not one of them has raised the issue of human rights violations in Bolivia.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Incidentally, they have also not done so in relation to Chile \u2013 a vocal member of the Lima Group \u2013 or Ecuador whose government has become a recent convert to Lima Group positions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Haiti, whose government, votes consistently with the Lima Group, has also been spared any criticism despite ongoing unrest in the country.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The double standard is blatant, patent and flagrant.<\/p>\n

Another almost scandalous manifestation of the double standard being applied in the OAS \u2013 and one that Secretary-General Almagro has never explained \u2013 is that almost in the same words that the OAS electoral observation mission used to describe the elections of October 20 in Bolivia, another OAS electoral observer mission (EOM) to Honduras in 2017 denounced the election result in that country.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But, neither the Secretary-General nor governments brought the matter to the Permanent Council, nor did they seek to conduct an audit of the election nor did they demand new elections.<\/p>

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The following is what the electoral mission to Honduras concluded in its November 27, 2017 report: \u201cBased on the analysis contained in this report and the observations included in the two preliminary reports, the EOM considers that it observed a low-quality electoral process. The abundance of irregularities and deficiencies is such as to preclude full certainty regarding the outcome\u201d.<\/p>

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The question is left blowing in the wind: why one standard for Honduras, and another for Bolivia?<\/p>\n

To be clear, all matters of this kind should be brought to the Permanent Council with clear and unbiased information to inform member states.\u00a0\u00a0The election in Bolivia needed to be discussed fairly, transparently and openly.\u00a0\u00a0But so, too, was a discussion necessary of the elections in Honduras.<\/p>\n

It is remarkable that the day after the November 19 atrocities in Bolivia, a Permanent Council meeting was held at the OAS at which not only was no mention made of it by the governments that brought a resolution on Bolivia, but no reference whatsoever was made to the role of the military in ousting Morales from Office, three months before his legitimate term in office was scheduled to end.<\/p>\n

The Antigua and Barbuda delegation to that meeting stated that, notwithstanding the coup d’\u00e9tat of October 20, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda recognises: \u201cThere is a\u00a0de facto<\/i>\u00a0government in Bolivia.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And, in as much as Antigua and Barbuda objects to the manner in which the government came to office, we acknowledge that its\u00a0de facto<\/i>\u00a0status gives it the authority to act on behalf of the state\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is the same reason why Antigua and Barbuda has stated it recognises the government of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

In its statement to the Permanent Council, the Antigua and Barbuda delegation also declared that it \u201cis extremely anxious that the human rights of all Bolivians, especially its indigenous people, are provided full and unrestricted observance and protection\u201d.<\/p>\n

Very conscious of the double standards that now prevail in the OAS, the Antigua and Barbuda delegation also noted that in the resolution on Bolivia, which did call for elections to be held urgently, there was no reference to the constitutional requirement for the election to be held in 90 days.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We made it clear that: \u201cWe are troubled by the omission of a specific reference to the 90-day requirement\u201d and we stated our expectation that \u201cif the 90-day requirement is ignored or pushed back without a full and credible explanation, the OAS delegation will immediately publish a report denouncing such a development\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the same day, the representative of the US delegation speaking under \u201cAny other business\u201d, usually reserved for non-contentious announcements, stated that the US \u201cwelcomes the attention of the OAS member states to appreciate the tense political situation in Dominica, surrounding the December 6 elections\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That is fair enough; all tense situations should be fully discussed to ascertain how the OAS can play a legitimate role.\u00a0\u00a0The discussion should be held on Dominica \u2013 but others as well including Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Haiti.<\/p>\n

Responses and previous commentaries:\u00a0www.sirronaldsanders.com<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own) Double standards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nCOMMENTARY: Double standards in the OAS - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COMMENTARY: Double standards in the OAS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own) Double standards […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T00:03:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SirRon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"340\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"COMMENTARY: Double standards in the OAS\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-22T00:03:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-11-22T00:03:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas\/\"},\"wordCount\":1065,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:340\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SirRon.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-double-standards-in-the-oas\/\",\"name\":\"COMMENTARY: Double standards in the OAS - 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