Venezuela Leading the Race For the UN Security Council Seat

August 20th, 2006 at 18:17 Björn Hallberg

But the U.S. will have non of that.

In October, elections will take place for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007. One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina. The two leading regional contenders vying to fill the opening are Venezuela and Guatemala, and the other countries in the region comprising Latin America and the Caribbean (GRULAC) will vote on which one gets it. If they’re unable to reach a consensus, which may happen, the choice will be up to the General Assembly where it will take a two-thirds majority secret ballot vote process to select the winner.

It’s not hard to know which country the US supports and why it’s doing all it can to subvert the chances of the other one. Guatemala has been a close US ally ever since the CIA fomented a coup in 1954 to oust the country’s democratically elected leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Ever since, the country has been run by a succession of oppressive military and civilian governments that turned Guatemala into pariah state compiling the hemisphere’s worst human rights record that never ended even after the 1996 UN brokered Peace Accords that officially ended a brutal 36 year civil conflict waged mainly against the country’s indigenous Mayan majority that resulted in the state-sponsored murder of 200,000 or more of its people.

Entry 622 filed under: South America. This entry was posted 2 years, 3 months ago. RSS feed for comments on this post.