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28"It's a double-edged sword," he said. The race was "perceived as a contestbetween the United States and Venezuela."Alberto Garrido, an author and analyst in Caracas who has written severalbooks on Chavez, said the vote is a serious setback for Chavez's campaignto project Venezuelan influence beyond Latin America.Venezuela has bought foreign debt from Argentina, sold crude oil at cut-rateprices to smaller Caribbean islands and provided aid to Africa -- all effortsdesigned, in part, to counter U.S. influence."This is a big setback in Chavez's strategy," said Garrido, whose latest book,"Chavez's Wars," deals with the president's conflicts with the Bushadministration and other foes. "He had a plan to become the institutionalizedvoice of the south, if he had gotten that seat. This is a blow, perhaps thebiggest blow in his geopolitical strategy."In Venezuela, the government's failure to secure a seat was called "anembarrassing defeat" by Manuel Rosales, who is running against Chavez inDecember's presidential election. The president retains the support of amajority of Venezuelans, recent polls have shown, but opponents accuse himof ignoring spiraling crime, chronic unemployment and poverty while hefocuses on making a name for himself abroad.Chavez has spent much of his presidency outside Venezuela. But since July,as the Security Council campaign has built, his travel schedule has becomefeverish, with trips to Russia, China, Vietnam, Iran and Belarus.The Venezuelan government's argument that it would be a voice for thosecountries suffering at the hands of U.S. imperialism did not strike a chordwith enough nations, said Milos Alcalay, a former Venezuelan ambassadorto the United Nations."To argue that Venezuela would go to the Security Council to be thecounterweight against imperialism didn't mesh with the philosophy that thisis a body that aims to find things in common," said Alcalay, who resignedhis post because of opposition to Chavez's policies.
29"This was firstly a rejection of combative language, but it was also arejection of Venezuela's claim to be the voice of those who do not have avoice, of Africa, the nonaligned," he said. "And really, they do have a voice.Africa elected South Africa as its spokesman."Venezuela in fight for place on UN councilOlivia WardThe Toronto StarThe United Nations Security Council's 10 non-permanent members havebeen labelled the "silent majority" because they take a back seat to thepowerful five permanent members who can shoot down resolutions with aveto.But yesterday the volume rose dramatically as the UN General Assemblywas deadlocked in an emotional vote for a new crop of non-permanentsecurity council members that will represent their regions by serving a twoyearterm at the heart of international diplomacy.Venezuela - a sworn enemy of the United States under President HugoChavez - has waged a fierce campaign against Washington-backedGuatemala for Latin America's seat, one of five that will change hands at theend of this year."Right at this moment the United States has activated a full-blown dirty waragainst Venezuela," Chavez told reporters in Caracas, continuing a line offlamboyant anti-American diatribes that have included denouncing PresidentGeorge W. Bush as "the devil."A number of diplomats said Chavez's strident tactics had discouraged theirvotes.The vote continues today until a nation reaches the requisite 125 votes inGeneral Assembly or a compromise candidate emerges.In 1979, the assembly conducted 155 rounds in a race between Colombiaand Cuba, with Mexico emerging as the compromise candidate.
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