the us the organization of american states and fourteen members of the lima group so i have to correct you the un in the security council that debate was held last week and they didn't have an agreement regarding your point actually it was the contrary they recognized at the security council with the voices of twenty four against fourteen in a debate that was called for the us they actually recognized president maduro as president and they said that the only way that the country could solve their issues was in their own matters and among venezuelans with no intervention when you mention. the regional organiser organization of americans are exactly the same panorama only nineteen voices where calling these elections to be on the fine and you know that they need twenty three you knew you knew the vote was going to be rigged because you refused to accredit international election monitors no no i have to just then again correct your information actually i can prove that in the early days of a trail last year even the e.u. was formally invited to op serve and the un as well so really the on

international now the foreign ministry of venezuela has announced that the country will leave the organization of american states. the government of the blue varian republic of venezuela reaffirms its revokable decision to leave the organization of american states on april twenty seventh twenty nineteen given that venezuela cannot remain in an organization that means before the imperial interests of the us administration that came in response to the oas in deciding to award venezuela's seat to a representative of opposition leader why dole according to the organization twitter the vote was eighteen to nine in favor of seating. at a meeting in washington on tuesday tare had been named by venezuela's opposition dominated national assembly which said he would represent venezuela until democratic elections are held. this week and cross live to andre walczak who is the author and investigative journalist thanks for being with us here on r.t. international. so with president maduro as representative being replaced at the oas how much of a blow is this actually to venezuela's diplomatic clout. no it's actually no blow

the foreign ministry of venezuela has announced that the country will leave the organization of american states the government of the blue varian republic of venezuela reaffirms its revokable decision to leave the organization of american states on april twenty seventh twenty nineteen given that venezuela cannot remain in an organization that means before the imperial interests of the us administration. came in response to the oas deciding to award venezuela's seat to a representative of opposition leader won by dell according to the organization's twitter the vote was eighteen to nine in favor of seating gustavo tar a on tuesday tory had been named by venezuela's oppositions are held journalist will check says the outcome of the vote was not a surprise. the organization of american states. actually. everybody knows that we're going to go in there is that they. want to go along. well a place that is going to. bring nato troops for signs of the american legion because they're with the existing ones being president who you know she says well we are third who of constitutional cool. go through som

the foreign minister of venezuela has announced to that the country will leave the organization of american states the government of the blue varian republic of venezuela reaffirms its revokable decision to leave the organization of american states on april twenty seventh twenty nine hundred given that venezuela cannot remain in an organization that kneel before the imperial interests of the us administration. that came in response to the oas deciding to award venezuela's seat to a representative of opposition leader. according to the organization's twitter the vote was eight thousand and nine in favor of seating. on tuesday tara had been named by venezuela's opposition dominated national assembly which said he would represent venezuela until democratic elections are held investigative journalist andre walczak says the outcome of the vote was not a surprise. the organization of americans. actually. everybody knows that we're going to go and that is that they. want to go along. well a blaze that is going to. bring nato troops for signs of. the existing ones being president who you know she's good c

the secretary-general of the organization of american states talks about human rights and the political systems in latin america countries, particularly in venezuela. here are his remarks from new york university's washington, d.c. center. >> in a way the story of the americas has been the result of the struggle between some people -- some high principles, usually democracy and human rights, and some poor people. dictators, terrorists,, criminal gangsters corrupt politicians and businessmen, self-serving leaders, men and women who do not care about democracy, human andts, eliminating poverty closing the inequality gap in our continent. these ethical people have complete the prevailed in our continent, but their share --formal power over billions no matter the cost. it usually does not matter. it means destroying basic human rights and liberties. of an entire population, as in the case of the surviving dictatorships on the continent. no matter if the cost means destroying natural resources. no better if the cost of holding onto power means being permissive with human rights abuses elsewh

of leading a corrupt government that's left the country struggling with nationwide power cuts and worsening economic conditions jennifer mccoy is a professor at georgia state university she helped the organization of american states to mediate with venezuela from two thousand and two to two thousand and four she says mcdougal is quitting the oas to please his supporters. actually announced two years ago that he planned with withdraw from the oas it's a two year process and so that it is finally coming to an end this month he did that to prevent their suspension and potential alister of in this way the from the oas so he did it in a sort of preemptive fashion the oas has been trying to get a two thirds majority to remove this way love from it that it hasn't been able to it's got a simple majority of countries within the hemisphere to read. i doze presidency instead of motherhood rose but the way it is has been divided. in part in large part because of the mist way that over the last fifteen years or so this way love was playing a very strong role in it when it had oil money to distribute particularly to smaller caribbean countries and central american countries who voted normally to support the venezuelan p

of the organization of american states recognized as venezuela's president of the activists say the u.s. is helping the u.s. government is helping engineer a coup and venice weta. helena humphrey sent us this report from the embassy. venezuela's power struggle is playing out here the country's u.s. embassy in washington d.c. for two weeks now american supporters of venezuela is in battle nicolas maduro occupied the building day and night they want to stop representatives of opposition leader and self declared interim president one by door from setting up shop in the leftist group calls itself the embassy protection collective is only one of its leaders shows us inside margaret the flowers doesn't play in venezuela as leaders for the country's economic and humanitarian crisis so much as her own. if the united states actually cared about the economic situation in venezuela we would stop the economic coercive measures that we're using you know the preventing them from having access to their gold in the bank of london or being able to use petro dollars you know we would stop you know we wou

other things, some of which i'm not going to talk about and we are working with the the organization of american states, the over 50 countries that pport gauda eye legitimacy democratically. this is clearly not a coupe. the ognize guaido as legitimate president of venezuela. just like when the president gives an order to the department of defense it's not a coupe. reporter: you said all options are on the table and i wanted to ask you about a different military action, the united states invading iraq? mr. bolton: i have a lot of opinions. those are my opinions. what i'm speaking about now is the policy of the u.s. government and i have answered the question. reporter: you feel this moment we are in right now is a building block or a tipping point as to where something needs to happen? mr. bolton: from the perspective from the humanitarian crisis we face in venezuela i hope this is nough to tip him maduro out of power. unless they are removed from power, we can put the venezuelan economy back on its feet. the sooner maduro is gone, the sooner the possibility of justice and economic growth for the venezu

that's not the opinion of the inter-american commission on human rights, a watchdog arm of the organization of american states. ar claims the new laws are of a legacy of racial discrimination, xenophobia, and anti-haitianism in dominicanso ety. >> ( translated ): if i'm walking, since i have black poskin, they ask for my pa. >> reporter: givena reyes, who is dominican of haitian heritage, is a human rights worker. >> ( translated ): there are dominicans with black skin, e d the haitians with white skin. i don't understand why they don't hold everyone to the same standard.ic many doms walk around without their documents, and, if you have no documents on you, how do you prove your stionality? >> reporter: reyess there is historical precedent for the f racial discrimination. in the 20th century, tens of thousands of haitians, most of them black, migrated to the dominican republic to work in sugarcane fields and construction. but in 193 dominican dictator rafael trujillo, in an outspoken efforto make dominican society homogenous and lighter skinned,r calledhe execution of all haitians in the country. tens of thou

has been cancelled amid fears of more attacks venezuela said it will withdraw from the organization of american states on saturday the oas recognizes opposition politician one of y. dos as venezuela's interim leader earlier this year he asked the group to ignore madieu those requests to exit the organization why don't supporters are carrying on with protests across the country demanding most doulos ouster. supporters have been holding their own rally the president refusing to step down despite international pressure he's accused of leading a corrupt government that's left the country struggling with nationwide power cuts and worsening economic conditions in france anti-government yellow vest protesters have charged of police in the city of strands pulled couped tried to cross a bridge to get to the european parliament but were pushed back by riot police protests come despite president emanuel mccraw announcing a series of tax cuts this week aimed at appeasing the movement. those are the headlines we're back in half an hour up next return of a president. this is the president of medicare ska mark amen

of venezuela the united states is a very powerful country that has a responsibility of influence in the western hemisphere to work with the lima group to work with the oas the organization of american states to work with fellow democracies to provide a humanitarian support that minutes we desperately need because nicolas maduro and his cronies have stolen all of the money but there are a lot of no no no no no no no what he. mentioned an important point a lot of money is frozen abroad if you're so concerned about humanitarian suffering some of those funds could be released into are doing so you're you'll be happy to know that's what we're tempting to do that's a big part of our policy you might remember a couple of really funny smart russian jockeys got elliott abrams on the phone they asked him the same question they realize they're baiting him they're trying to get him to say something that's going to be embarrassing about american policy they're trying to get him to say that yeah really look we're doing all this but we really are. and to do is invade and fully believing that he is talking to senior swiss bankers says look we're really not going to invade what we want to do is fre

the organization of american states the oldest regional organization in the world. voted to stand with the venezuelan people and recognize. the government's representative as the only true representative of venezuela. and president trumps direction the united states was proud to be the first nation to recognize interim president won by doe as the legitimate president of venezuela and today fifty four nations have joined us. the western hemisphere has spoken with a clear voice. nations across the world have spoken. it's time for the united nations to speak. in february the united states introduced a resolution of the security council that called for the restoration of democracy in venezuela and for the madeira regime to allow all humanitarian aid to enter the country. the resolution was not approved. two nations which continue to back this brutal regime used their vetoes to stop this body from taking action. and while russia and china continue to obstruct the security council rogue states like iran and cuba are doing all they can to prop up the madeira regime. for dec

of prostitution as. the term is to. point. to countries that are supporting one where you go international organizations like the organization of american states and the reason as well so more. support of course emboldens. one where you don't. to risk take these risks and if you join today now we don't know how much that support will translate into defending hungary though if it comes to worst but a progressive ok can you tell us something more about the timing of this you know one way to originally had planned for a big protest tomorrow what he was calling the largest protest after in venezuela why are we seeing this what he calls the final phase of his plan starting today. you know there's an element of surprise no doubt nobody was expecting this to happen today people were expecting it concentrations tomorrow there were also a lot of talk about going to me to throw chairs that the presidential palace and protesting down which is an area that officers can have never been able to reach with any kind of protract because. more and military officials however the element of surprise is very important because the mother little regime is very. very

forcible regime change is illegal it violates the united nations charter the charter of the organization of american statesand the international covenant on civil and political rights and this regime change manual which is really a counterinsurgency doctrine for the trumpet ministration. is it contemplates the use of force offensive defensive combat operations it's very very disturbing there are basically four different stages of regime change first sanctions and economic warfare and that's what the united states has been in gauging in against venezuela beginning with the george w. bush administration stepped up during the obama administration and taken to a new high under the trumpet ministration and then information information warfare basically propaganda and that is what the u.s. government has been doing with wydow who was unknown a short time ago installing him as the so-called interim president and then really blanketing the corporate media in the united states with anti my daughter oh. news and and then so those are the first two stages at the you know. it states has been and is engaging in the thi

we delivered a message that now the organization of american states has recognized juan guaido as legitimate 54 nations has followed president trump's lead to recognize president juan guaido and his administration, now it's time for the united nations to act and the united states will be introducing a resolution to the u.n. in the days ahead that will recognize juan guaido's government, that will denounce the dictatorship of nicolas maduro and we called on the u.n. to revoke the credentials of venezuela's representative to the united nations and recognize the duly appointed representative of the democratically elected government of venezuela. >> bring it back home, the president gives the state of the union every year if you were tasked to give an economic state of the union right now, what would you say? how would you characterize it? >> well, the american economy is soaring. thanks to the leadership of president donald trump from the first days of this administration, this president has been working to get this economy moving again, cutting taxes, rolling back federal red tape, unleashing

jennifer mccort is a professor at georgia state university she also worked closely with the organization of american states to mediate conflict in venezuela and she joins us via skype from budapest i'm jennifer how surprised are you that venezuela has decided to withdraw from the oas and why do you think nicolas maduro decided to do this now because the oas doesn't even recognize madeira as the president anyway. that's correct but he actually announced two years ago that he planned it with withdrawal from the oas it's a two year process and so it is finally coming to an end this month he did that to prevent their suspension potential alister of the us whether from the oas that he did it in a sort of preemptive fashion the oas has been trying to get a two thirds majority to remove. this waiver from it but it hasn't been able to it's got a simple majority of countries within the hemisphere to read. presidency instead of mark geragos but this has been divided. in part in large part because they've been this way. over the last fifteen years or so and the oas was once dominated by influential leftist government

kabul venezuela has said it will withdraw from the organization of american states the oas recognizes opposition politician as venezuela's interim leader earlier this year he asked the group to ignore my daughter's request to exit the organization or the supporters are carrying on with protests across the country demanding the ouster of president. well president of supporters have been holding their own rally the president's refused to step down despite international pressure is accused of leading a corrupt government that's left the country struggling with a nationwide power cuts and worsening economic conditions. appointed by hong kong you don't have met in colombia his envoy to the u.s. called venezuelan president nicolas maduro user power and has asked him to step down his foreign minister carlos holmes story or was also at the meeting and said that it was just a matter of time before model leads office. in france anti-government yellow vest protesters have charged the police in the city of strasbourg the group tried to cross a bridge to get to the european parliament but they wer

the organization of american states just came out with the number of 8 million by the end of next yearrger than the syria refugee crisis. >> right. >> and the u.s., meantime, we need to step up and do more. we need to grant temporary protected status to the venezuelans. what we're doing right now is we're saying, to colombia and brazil and trinidad and tobago, you take them, we're not going to. >> but we're not going to change our tune. given this administration's position, do you think they're really going to say, come on in? >> i'm concerned we won't. i'm skeptical, as well. i mean, i'm hoping the hill is continuing to push this issue, but it is a problem. but we also need to be providing more resources to the countries that are the recipients. >> yeah, which we weren't so good at even in the middle east. all right, rebecca, thanks very much. former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the western hemisphere. >> a really important subject. >> yes. >>> next, the big question. when will robert mueller publicly address his findings? when? if? you're watch "velshi & ruhle" live next

i would pull together the interamerica development bank, the organization of american states, two organizationsch do lots of work with central and south america and establish a task force. america did this very well in colombia. colombia was a really tough spot. turned the economy around. colombia is now doing very well, exporting, the u.s. is exporting tons there. it's a stable state. we can do this. we know how to do it. we should turn our efforts to focus in that regard rather than cutting the funding there. >> bakari, according to jake's reporting, cooler heads prevailed on the president about shutting the border down. i suppose they could prevail on not reinstating the separation policy. what do you -- how do you see what's going on here? >> well, unfortunately, this is not just haphazard, but it's callous as well. and i agree with david. one of the faux pass that was made in this immigration policy or lack thereof was cutting the funding to those three countries. the president himself and stephen miller even more importantly have stated that they're trying to curb legal immigration. i thi

we're certainly working with the lima group, organization of american states, the over 50 countries thatport guaido's legitimacy democratically. let me answer the last part of your question. this is clearly not a coup. we recognize juan guaido as the legitimate interim president of venezuela. just as it's not a coup when the president of the united states gives an order to the department of defense, it's not a coup for juan guaido to try to take command of the venezuelan military. >> you said all options are on the table. i wanted to ask you about a different military action that you did use in the iraq war. was that a mistake, invading iraq? >> i have got a lot of opinions that i have expressed over many years. those were my opinions. what i'm speaking about now is the policy of the u.s. government and i have answered the question. >> do you feel at this moment that we're in is a building block or do you think it is the moment, tipping point torque where something needs to happen? >> i think from the perspective of humanitarian crisis that we face in venezuela, i hope this is enough to

the organization of american states. in south america that can work together to step up and solve the problem. now, that's really good for a bunch of reasons. it's good for them to show that they can get something done and work together. it's good for us because it gets the conclusion we want without us having to put american troops anywhere near it. and finally, it sends a signal to everybody else that they're capable. the problem though is how do you get rid of maduro -- trish: make him an offer he can't refuse, i guess. go ahead. >> here's the problem with getting rid of any dictator, particularly brutal dictators. they don't want to go because they think their alternative is the international criminal courts and maybe being executed. it's a tragic thing, because maduro needs to be punished beyond belief, but you may not get him out in time. maybe he should go live in cuba. maybe he should get free passage to cuba, and then the rest of the world steps in. trish: right. but he's probably in a position where he's quite f

venezuela has said it will officially withdraw from the organization of american states on saturday the oas recognizes the head of the opposition is venezuela's right for lida earlier this year he asked it to ignore majorities request to exit the group his supporters are holding more protests in caracas calling from a dura to stand down well maduro supporters are holding their own rally in solidarity with the president has refused to stand he has refused to leave despite international and regional pressure the juror is accused of presiding over a corrupt government that's left the country struggling with nationwide power cuts and a worsening economic conditions. two months ago around a thousand security force personnel heeded the call of venezuela's opposition and defected into neighboring colombia and there they remain stuck in limbo still waiting for their orders in the fight against president nicolas maduro. spoke to some of them in the border city of kuta. was they abandoned their posts and crossed into colombia they were greeted as heroes was born in one thousand members of the sec

of which i'm not going to talk about, and we're certainly working with the lima group, organization of american statese other 50 countries that support guaido's legitimacy democratically. and let me answer the last part of your question, this is clearly not a coup. we recognize guaido as the legitimate interim president of venezuela. and just as it is not a coup when the president of the united states gives an order to the department of defense, it is not a coup for guaido to try to take command of the venezuela military. >> ambassador, you said all options are on the table. and i wanted to ask you about different military action, was it a mistake invading iraq? >> as i've said before, i have a lot of opinions i've expressed over many years in the public space. those were my opinions. what i'm speaking about now is the policy of the u.s. government and i've answered the question. >> do you feel this moment that we're this is sort of a building block or do you think that it is the moment, the tipping point as to where something needs to happen? >> i think from the perspective of the humanitarian crisis

which i'm not going to talk about and we're certainly working with the lima group, the organization of american statesover 50 countries that support guaido's legitimacy democratically and let me answer the last part of your question, this is clearly not a coup. we recognize juan guaido as the legitimate interim president of venezuela. just as it is not a coup when the president of the united states gives an order to the department of defense, it is not a coup for juan guaido to try to take command of the venezuelan military. reporter: ambassador you said all options are on the table for military action and i wanted to ask you about a different military ad action you advocate, iraq war, was that a mistake invading iraq? >> as i have said before i have got a lot of opinions i've expressed every many years in the public space. those are my opinions. what i'm speaking about now is the policy of the u.s. government and i answered the question on -- reporter: you feel at this moment we're in sort of a building block or you think is the moment the tipping point as it where something needs to happen? >> i thi

venezuela has said it will officially withdraw from the organization of american states on saturday the oas recognizes the head of the opposition as venezuela's right for leader earlier this year he asked the group to ignore the requests to exit supporters are holding more protests and calling for nicolas maduro to stand down. many people have been forced on their homes because of the war against boko haram a quarter of a million live in refugee camps in the southeastern region of where some are being targeted again alexia brown reports. to ali is tired of running but she doesn't know what else to do. she fled nigeria with her husband and three young daughters in may last year escaping attacks by the armed group boko her family says all in the village and near the border with neighboring nigeria but moved again because they still didn't feel safe. so. one day someone told my husband there were cows near our farm my husband went out and never came back three days later they found his head separated from his body. that was three weeks ago hamza two and a house burned was supposed to be ce

this is a problem for all of the western hemisphere where is the organization of american states, whereis the international development bank, on helping solve these problems these are things we can be doing there. on the ground, you're seeing impact of these border patrol agents have, and lindsey graham in his earlier statement showed how it's only 10%, 10% to 14% of people that apply for asylum only actually get asylum, but we shouldn't be treating everybody who shows up at the border as an asylum seeker. all of them are not claiming credible fear. why are the men and women and border patrol and i.c.e. being told to handle everybody as if they are asylum seekers? they have something called expedited removal and if you try to sneak in our country you have three opportunities to apply for asylum, that is your motivations are not pure and you should be deported immediately. these are some of the tweeks that could happen right now to make sure the men and women in border patrol and i.c.e. and cbp have are able to continue to do their jobs. maria: but congressman just to be clear and with a

we need to be engaging things like opic, the international development bank, organization of american states, in order to address those root causes, which is going to be ultimately the solution. and then here, one of the things our acting secretary has is, you know, border patrol has a transportation contract to move you from point "a" to point "b." ice in the same location has the same -- there's a lot of efficiencies that can be improved to prevent things from happening, like this past quarter, 78,000 man hours were spent by border patrol at hospitals dealing with immigrants. why are we not contracting out that service? so there are some administrative things like that, that can improve the situation. and we do need to address some of our asylum laws. our asylum laws are being taken advantage of. a 1950s asylum laws are not going to solve this problem. but there needs to be a bipartisan conversation around that. >> but that's the law of the land right now. if somebody comes in the united states and seeks asylum, you can't simply just kick that person out and claim, as the president says, y

and we're certainly working with the lima group, the organization of american states, the over 50 countriesand let me answer the last part of your question, this is clearly not a coup. we recognize juan guaido as the interim and when they give a order to the department of defense it is not a coup for juan guaido to take comment of the venezuelan military. >> you said all options are on the table still for military action and i have to ask you about a different military action that you did advocate. was that a mistake leaving iraq? >> as i've said before, i've got a lot of opinions i've expressed over many years in the public space. those were my opinions. what i'm speaking about now is the policy of the u.s. government and i've answered the question on force -- >> do you feel that this moment that we're in right now is a building block or do you think it is the moment, the tipping point as to where something needs to help? >> i think from the perspective of humanitarian crisis that we face in venezuela, i hope this is enough to tip maduro out of power. because it's only when he and his fell

the secretary-general of the organization of american states talks about human rights and the politicalystems in latin america countries, particularly in venezuela. here are his remarks from new york university's washington, d.c. center. >> in a way the story of the americas has been the result of the struggle between some people -- some high principles,

the nations of the region and the lima group, the organization of american states are all demanding thatget democracy restored. and that we get dignity back to this once-great nation. it's a country that has the capacity for great wealth and the united states is prepared to stand with the venezuelan people, to support the interim government, to haelp a free and fair election to take place and build back this country. >> you say you've spoken to the russians, you've spoken to the cubans. clearly, they're not listening, because their support for maduro continues. so what are you going to do if that continues down the road and it looks like this violence is simply going to escalate? >> well, we're continuing to work. one should measure the progress that the venezuelan people have made. they're continuing to accrete influence and power, and i'm convinced that will be the case, not only today, but in the days ahead, as well. >> what's very concern sthing i that the russians, and correct me if i'm wrong, is they have missiles on the ground in venezuela right now. that, in effect, could restric

continuing international pressure of the 50 countries that are recognized guaido and the organization of american statesink if there is an understanding that there's no place for maduro to go to unless he strikes a deal tw deal, it could be a peaceful transition at the end of the day. >> let's hope for a peaceful transition. senator bob menendez, thank you so much for your time. it's hard to forget what happened the last time speaker trump met with nancy pelosi and senator chuck schumer. they had a face-to-face today. what could go wrong? stay with us. this is the couple who wanted to get away who used expedia to book the vacation rental which led to the discovery that sometimes a little down time can lift you right up. expedia. everything you need to go. boom! i fell 22 feet. i just remember climbing up the tree next thing i know i hit the ground. completely shattered my pelvis. in the middle of the woods. i called my wife, she thought i was jokin'. i said, "man, i'm not... i'm not." i was so lucky that day... saved my life. (vo) there for you when it matters most. now get a free galaxy s10e when you b