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THE Organisation of American States (OAS) rejected Colombia’s bid to sanction Venezuela over border closures on Monday, instead telling Bogota to resolve the dispute diplomatically.
While 17 members of the regional body, which includes the US and Canada, voted in favour of calling a special meeting to discuss the issue, this was one short of the 18 required for a majority in the 34-member organisation.
Colombian envoy Andres Gonzalez expressed outrage over the treatment of migrants, many of whom are living in tents at hastily-mounted shelters in the eastern city of Cucuta.
Venezuela’s ambassador Roy Chaderton accused Colombian oligarchs of being blind to their country’s poor and drumming up nationalist sentiment in the same way hate-filled media fuelled genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s.
Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Haiti joined Venezuela in opposing the proposal. Brazil, Argentina, Belize, Grenada, Panama and the Dominican republic were among the 11 that abstained.
