China aims to control the Organization of American States (OAS) to reduce US influence in the region and become a center of influence over Latin American countries where left-wing political movements and ideologies are pretty strong.
Jorge Taiana, Argentina’s newly-appointed Defense Minister and former Senator from Justicialist Party, messaged to US President Joseph Biden stating that OAS Secretary-General Luis Almagro must resign. Almagro progressively defends human rights in Latin America and constantly criticizes their violations by the regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua – the countries representing the ‘left belt’ in the region.
The left sees the OAS as ‘the ministry of United States colonies’. Being run by the OAS has been called by leftist govs as synonymous with the ‘Monroe Doctrine’.
The Organization of American States (OAS) is one of the instruments that Washington uses to project geopolitical power over Latin America and the Caribbean states which joined the organization one by one after winning independence in the 1960-1980s.
Taiana was a guerrilla combatant in the 1970s. He served prison term between 1975 and 1982 for bombing a Buenos Aires café resulted in two deaths and several injured. Later on he served as Foreign Minister under Presidents Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2010). He became a Senator in 2019 as CFK vacated her seat to move up to the Vice Presidency.
At a Puebla Group summit on July 30 Taiana said that ‘there will be no sustainable development without regional integration. CELAC must be strengthened (…) and it is clearly due to misconduct and immorality Mr. (Luis) Almagro’s resignation as the OAS head should be a political objective. “The first calls for Almagro to leave were explained by his alleged backup of the events in Bolivia in 2019 by publishing a report about voter frauds leading to socialist Evo Morales regime in Bolivia fallen. In 2020, Morales threatened Almagro that he would sue Almagro in the International Criminal Court (ICC) and demanded his immediate resignation.
Under the Uruguayan Almagro, the OAS has strongly condemned violations of human rights in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
In 2018 the National Constituent Assembly of Venezuela issued a statement demanding the immediate resignation of Luis Almagro from the post of the OAS Secretary General orchestrated by Russia.
In June 2021 Luis Almagro urged its members to suspend Nicaragua’s participation in the OAS following the arrest of several opposition politicians.
Taiana is known for his involvement in the Puebla Group, a political forum made up of political parties in the region calling themselves progressives who understand that it is necessary to limit the influence of the US in Latin America. Besides Bolivia, Almagro’s policy was criticized by the regime in Caracas and Havana – it clearly indicates the left (socialist and communist anti-American and anti-democratic) background of the initiative in the interests of the Venezuela-Cuba line. In fact, this is an attempt to coup the OAS.
Taiana is recognized as the Chinese regime protectionist. In an interview with Xinhua, Taiana underscored that the link between Argentina and China goes beyond the merely commercial, ‘We have a comprehensive strategic partnership’. His contacts with China can be tracked in 2010.
He said, ‘The achievements of the Communist Party of China, which turns 100, with the reconstruction, rebirth and progress of Chinese society in general, are inseparable’. And on other occasions, he did not blush when he confidently stated. ‘China is a rising power and the United States is a great power but in decline’”China has already set up a strategic base just 100 kilometers from Vaca Muerta in the province of Neuquén. Links between the Communist Party of China (CCP) and the Justicialist Party date back to the times when former Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (1946-1955 / 1973-1974) exchanged letters with Chinese leader Mao Zedong, laying the “foundations for a feeling of brotherhood between the two political forces,” Taiana told Xinhua. Thus, Almagro’s dismissal is controlled by China who is interested in establishing pro-Chinese leftist regimes in Latin America and strengthening its economic presence in the region.
