OAS head’s constant twitter attacks on Venezuelan regime

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Organisation of American States (OAS) has increasingly faced criticism for his apparent fixation on attacking and attempting to destabilise Venezuela’s government, while remaining silent on political crises and human rights abuses elsewhere in the region, including in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

As Luis Almagro continues to set his sights on Venezuela, most recently with a four-minute video message criticising Nicolas Maduro’s government and pushing the opinion that only general elections will offer a way out of the country’s political tension, an analysis of the OAS head’s Twitter account reveals that he has been disproportionately obsessed with Venezuela since he took office as head of the regional body.

Since taking on the role on May 26, 2015, Almagro tweeted 3 372 times as of Sunday morning and 7% of all tweets have referred to the political and economic situation in Venezuela – a large number for the figure charged with bringing to the attention of the body’s 35 member states any issues that might “threaten the peace and security of the hemisphere”.

Almagro has tweeted 243 messages about Venezuela, including calls to authorise its suspension from the international body, criticising Maduro’s democratically elected government and demanding that general elections be called to remove him from power.

This figure doesn’t include the hundreds of Almagro retweets of Venezuela-related content, including media outlets that have interviewed him, messages of support from opposition leaders, organisations sending messages against the government and others. – teleSUR