Western Hemisphere
Caracas Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma said on Thursday that in a meeting held this week in Washington between several opposition leaders, including him, and the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), they told José Miguel Insulza "all we had to tell him" about the situation in Venezuela.

Ledezma said that the OAS Secretary General was briefed on the human rights abuses in Venezuela, as the opposition state governors and mayors deem it necessary that the international community becomes aware of such abuses in Venezuela.

"Insulza's responsibility with Venezuela is up to him. He is responsible for the events that could take place in Venezuela," Ledezma said.

The Caracas Metropolitan Mayor, like the state governors who accompanied him to the headquarters of the OAS in Washington, said days before the trip that the hemispheric body has not paid attention to the complaints made by the opponents of Chávez's administration.

Leda Piñero
EL UNIVERSAL