Chavez says Venezuela 'would love' to join Cuba as OAS outcast

Chavez says Venezuela 'would love' to join Cuba as OAS outcast
By Associated Press
9:58 PM EDT, May 25, 2009

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela could
eventually withdraw from the Organization of American States and seek
Cuba's help to create an alternative regional group.

Chavez claims the OAS serves the interests of the United States. The
Venezuelan leader has repeatedly criticized Cuba's expulsion from the
organization in 1962 on grounds that its communist government went
against the hemispheric body's principles.

Chavez said Monday that "Venezuela would love to join Cuba" as a nonmember.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez chimed in, saying Latin American
and Caribbean nations should create an organization that "serves our
people rather than the Empire," a reference to the United States.

Chavez says Venezuela 'would love' to join Cuba as OAS outcast -- South
Florida Sun-Sentinel.com (25 May 2009)

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/cuba/sns-ap-lt-venezuela-cuba-oas,0,5421511.story