OAS approves implementation of treaty of inter-American military assistance to Venezuela | Internationale

The next step in this action was the appeal to the Foreign Ministers of the States Parties to the TIAR Defense Treaty at a meeting in the second half of this month on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in order to to: attack the "destabilizing impact" of the crisis in Venezuela.

The TIAR, also known as the Rio Treaty for its signature in this city in 1947, states that the Foreign Ministers together must "agree on common defense measures and the maintenance of peace and security of the continent" . During these decisive weeks, they will have to decide whether diplomatic and economic relations are broken, for example to put pressure on Nicolás Maduro, or if economic, land and air communications are suspended, as well as to take coercive measures of a military nature. .

"The crisis in Venezuela has a destabilizing impact and represents a clear threat to peace and security in the Hemisphere," says the resolution based on Article Six of the TIAR. According to this article, "whether the inviolability or integrity of the territory or the sovereignty or political independence of a US state have been affected by an aggression that is not a armed attack, or by an extracontinental or intracontinental conflict, or by any other fact or situation that could endanger the peace in America, the consultation body will meet immediately. "

Venezuela retired from TIAR six years ago, considering it a "dead letter since the United States contradicted it in practice in the 1980s". But last July, the Venezuelan National Assembly, led by the opposition Juan Guaidó, approved the return of the country to this multilateral pact, a kind of US NATO.

The treaty was one of the issues around which the Venezuelan opposition revealed its differences. Since the Guaidó oath as interim president last January, the most radical sectors have demanded that Venezuela be reinstated in this treaty in order to give international scaffolds a measure of strength against Maduro. The Parliament Speaker, initially elusive, said that he should wait to have all the support necessary to put this letter on the table, invoked for some 20 years in 62 years' time. history, including by the United States after 9/11. of 2001 and never involved the use of military force.

On May 7, a week after the failure of the operation of April 30, during which military officers stood up and concluded the release of Leopoldo López from his house arrest, Guaidó launched the reintegration process with the first discussion of the agreement the National Assembly The judicial process was necessary because in May 2013 the Parliament, then responsible for Diosdado Cabello, the number two Chavismo announced the withdrawal of Venezuela as they had since 2000 allied countries of the so-called Bolivarian revolution (Nicaragua, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador) and Mexico. On July 23, in a street act, the return of the country to the treaty was finally formalized during the second discussion.

In eight months of activity, Guaidó has always indicated that he participated in several boards of directors as part of his plan to get Maduro out of Miraflores, to form a transitional government and to organize free elections, as a solution to the institutional crisis in Venezuela. The progress of the TIAR within the OAS is involved in the intensification of the humanitarian crisis in the country and the tightening of the international encirclement imposed by the latest economic sanctions adopted in Washington, which have reduced the Maduro's room for maneuver and led him to abandon his efforts. negotiated by Norway. To this complex scenario is added the rise in temperature in the tensions between a Colombia overwhelmed by forced migration and Venezuela, after the announcement of the rearmament of a dissident group of the FARC guerrillas, now disappeared . This new situation, described by Ambbadador Guaidó to the OAS, is part of the dossier that now supports the actions of Foreign Ministers in an attempt to force Maduro to leave.