The Maduro regime wanted Venezuela to leave the OAS, but Juan Guaidó's representative will continue to make his voice heard and vote

However, Venezuela will continue to be represented. It will not be an envoy of Nicolás Maduro, but of Juan Guaidó. Gustavo Tarre, has been in the country's headquarters since mid-April and can now actively participate in the body with your vote.

"It reinforces the international legitimacy, Maduro is every day more alone", told EFE Tarre that on April 9, he had received the support of the Permanent Council of the OAS to become a "permanent representative" by the appointment of the National Assembly of Venezuela (NA , Parliament), chaired by Guaidó.

This Friday, Tarre has already affirmed its voice in the organization and has positioned itself in favor of the candidacy measures to discipline Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, for their "repressive actions" against those who, since April 2018, demand their resignation after 12 consecutive years in power.

S addressing other ambbadadors, Tarre said: "You will notice a substantial change in the position of our country, from a shameful support to the dictatorship of the Ortega family, we will move to fraternal support and solidarity with the struggle of the Nicaraguan people for the restoration of democracy. "

Tarre has already planned that one of its priorities will be Venezuela's "return" to the inter-American system of rights, of which the OAS is the mainstayInter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court of Human Rights), based in San Jose, Costa Rica.

In 2012, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) denounced the American Convention on Human Rights and dismissed Venezuela from the jurisdiction of the Court of the IACHR. And in April 2017, Venezuela became the first country to demand its exit from the OAS, denouncing its founding charter signed in Bogota in 1948, process that it has accomplished today.

Technically, According to the regulations of the organization, any country denouncing the OAS Charter may withdraw two years after this act.but only if it is up to date in the payment of its debts, which in the case of Venezuela amount to 12 million dollars.

Maduro did not pay this debt, but Guaidó representatives badured that they would badume it. stay in the pan-American mechanism, so de facto Venezuela is still in the interior.

In fact OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro recalled that the departure of Venezuela stopped shortly after 23 January. Guaidó invoked articles of the Constitution of Venezuela to affirm that in his capacity as President of Parliament, he should be acting president.

"Venezuela has today Transitional Democratic Government and suspended the process of denouncing the Bogotá letter and withdrawal of the organization that had formed the previous government, which had been declared illegitimate. Therefore, Venezuela is still sitting with Gustavo Tarre, "said Almagro.

There are few precedents in Latin America for a situation like that currently facing Venezuela, in which two political leaders claim to be "legitimate" state leaders.

On April 9, the OAS Secretary of Legal Affairs, Jean Michel Arrighi, explained that only similar situations occurred twice: during the coup d'etat of Haiti in 1991 and in Panama, when President Manuel Noriega left office (1983-1989) and Guillermo Endara came in (1989-1994).

In the case of Haiti, the OAS condemned the coup d'etat, supported President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and never supported the military junta, which eventually became collapsed in 1994. Meanwhile, the OAS condemned the controversial US military intervention in Panama in December 1989., which ended the regime of General Noriega, succeeded by Endara.

In the present case of Venezuela, Guaidó has succeeded in placing his representatives in two instances: the OAS and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), that on March 15, he recognized as governor of the country the economist Ricardo Hausmann, former minister of the second government of Carlos Andrés Pérez (1989-1993).

It is a reflection of Guaidó's struggle for legitimacy at the international level and which, in the case of the OAS, gives it an effective power to define the course of the American continent.