Interventionism Run into Snags in Latin America 　　-- By Commentator Guan Yanzhong 　　Recently Guatemala hosted the 29th Session of OAS (Organization of American States) at which a US amendment was proposed for a revision of the OAS Charter by representatives present at the meeting for setting up a "preparatory mechanism" against "possible interruption" of "democratic regimes" among various "democracies" of the region. According to US amendment dished up, when a certain member democracy should have been in domestic trouble or have met possible "threat" to its existence the OAS could take "preventive action". This is to be, according to the US, a sort of "action" that could be jointly taken by its close neighbors or other "close" counterparts of OAS to go as "mediators" for finding "a peaceful solution" to its domestic trouble and the like. But as soon as the US-inked amendment came out, it had met with flat refusal from most representatives of OAS members, and even strong rebuff by those from such OAS member countries as Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Columbia. 　　US amendment represents "a varied form of intervention" or "a kind of interventionism" is a view generally accepted by representatives at the OAS 29th Session. Hence its failure from the very start after the US put it out for there is not an OAS member country that has been found in support of the amendment the US produced. 　　The US with its amendment had been found truly in great embarrassment though Peter Romero, undersecretary of US State for Pan-American Affairs, had tried his utmost at the OAS meeting in denying "interventionism" in its ill-fated amendment. According to Buddy Mckay, US representative to OAS 29th Session, the US has by its amendment driven for a "strengthening" of OAS democracies instead of seeking for time or chances to "interfere in others' internal affairs in the Western Hemisphere". But at the same time he has to admit: "I know some representatives are happy with though there are still some that may not be pleased with our amendment proposed". 　　What has the US representative got up his sleeve? Obviously it's no secret to every one represented at the OAS meeting of what is to be implied by US "strengthening" of democracies under OAS. 　　As for a "strengthening" of various democracies in the Western Hemisphere, OAS has already had its 1080 Resolution made as early as in 1991 at Santiago, Chile, and a "Convention" signed by its member states the following year in Washington in the US. According to OAS, under these two, when a member democracy should have been replaced by a military regime it will have to forfeit its membership of OAS. But by US amendment, OAS president-general will have to "take action" when an "anti-democracy event" should happen: He must, within a set time of seven days at the most, call for "joint action" to be taken by a number of member countries under the OAS. This is to say US-type intervention in the internal affairs of the various member countries in the name of upholding "Democracy". People have to put themselves on alert against US interventionism, of course. When giving a piece of his mind Foreign Minister Eduardo of the host country has this to say: "I am afraid there will arise neo-interventionism." 　　But the days have already gone for the US to do what it likes. The Latin American countries can now openly hold firm on the stand to fight against all outside intervention, protect their national independence and safeguard their sovereignty. In internal affairs, they dare to say "No!" now to all interventionism from the US. 　　Looking back into the history of Latin American countries in the past half a century, people can still remember various bloody events representing US interventionism and its armed suppression carried out in the whole of Latin America: 　　In 1952, the US had plotted in Guatemala for overthrow of its then incumbent government that had been selected by a national vote. During the early 60s, it dispatched a mercenary force into Cuba then newly founded. In October 1983, it sent its troops into Grenada in toppling its Revolutionary Committee on the Caribbean Sea. By the end of 1989, with a force it struck into Panama´. 　　Sanguinary events like those may be told to a long list. This is a bloody history that has been written by US interventionism with the blood of the Latin American people, a history of scourges that had been brought out by US armed interventions that the Latin American people have suffered and that they will never forget! US-led NATO's barbaric bombing, wanton killing and destruction in the last 78 days in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia also provides a profound lesson to the Latin American people and peoples throughout the world. This also explains why representatives of the Latin American people flatly turned down US "amendment" at the 29th Session of the Organization of American States held recently at Guatemala. WorldNews 1999-06-17 Page6 Full Story in Chinese