Venezuelan opposition resists Republican measure

Don't do us any favors. That's the message that Venezuela's political opposition is sending to House Republicans, who recently voted to cut off U.S. dues to the Organization of American States.

Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.), who introduced the amendment scrapping the $48.5 million annual dues, singled out what he called the organization's support of autocratic President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

"Let's not continue to fund an organization that's bent on destroying democracy in Latin America," he said in the debate last month.

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07 Aug, 2011


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