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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 21 June 2017
Venezuela, United States spar at OAS Mexico meeting

and reduced much of the in Venezuela to take ad-
population to poverty. vantage of the country’s
“If we can’t take that step oil reserves.
forward here, we seriously Sullivan responded that Ro-
impair our ability to go for- driguez’s comments “can
ward as an organization. be summarized in three
It is the least we can do,” words: distractions, distor-
Sullivan told the OAS gen- tions and irrelevancies.”
eral assembly being held in That sparked an angry re-
the Mexican resort of Can- sponse from Rodriguez. “I
cun. think the only way they (the
Sullivan described the pro- U.S.) can impose their will
posal, which has yet to be is with their Marines, who
voted on, as a plan to cre- would be met with a swift
ate a “group of friends” response in Venezuela,
— a multi-country media- should they dare” to inter-
tion group like the one that vene, she said.
helped end the civil war in The OAS narrowly failed to
El Salvador in the 1980s. pass a resolution calling
The members of the group for an end to Venezuela’s
would be named later, and political crisis. But Peru and
Sullivan said they would be other countries contin-
Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez looks back during the 2017 General Assembly
of the Organization of American States in Cancun, Mexico, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Rodriguez “balanced” and could in- ued Tuesday to mention
walked out of the meeting of regional diplomats to discuss the South American country’s politi- clude the United Nations the desperate situation on
cal crisis as a 17-year-old anti-government demonstrator was shot and killed during clashes with or the Vatican. Sullivan Venezuela’s streets where
security forces. said the U.S. wants politi- at least 70 people have
(AP Photo/Israel Leal) cal prisoners in Venezuela died and more than 1,300
By MARK STEVENSON, Asso- the U.S. representative said an impassioned plea for freed, elections held and been injured during dem-
ciated Press the OAS must pass some the 34-nation organiza- violence ended. onstrations and other un-
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — kind of resolution on the tion to approve naming a Venezuelan Foreign Minis- rest.
The United States and Ven- troubled South American “contact group” of coun- ter Delcy Rodriguez, who Rodriguez said of those
ezuela exchanged harsh country to remain true to its tries to mediate the fierce walked out of the meet- countries: “If they form part
words at the Organization principles. political and economic ing Monday but returned of the litter of lap dogs of
of American States general John Sullivan, U.S. deputy crisis that has already cost Tuesday, said the United imperialism, Venezuela
assembly Tuesday, after secretary of state, made over 70 lives in Venezuela States wanted to intervene doesn’t.” q

Hidden trove of suspected Nazi artifacts found in Argentina

pieces,” Argentine Security Eagle above a swastika, a head of Argentina’s feder-
Minister Patricia Bullrich told Nazi hourglass and a box of al police. “We are reaching
The Associated Press on harmonicas. out to international experts
Monday, saying that some Police say one of the most- to deepen” the investiga-
pieces were accompanied compelling pieces of evi- tion.
by old photographs. “This dence of the historical im- The photograph was not
is a way to commercialize portance of the find is a released to the public, but
them, showing that they photo negative of Hitler was shown to The Associ-
were used by the horror, by holding a magnifying glass ated Press on the condition
the Fuhrer. There are pho- similar to those found in the that it not be published.
tos of him with the objects.” boxes. The investigation that cul-
Among the disturbing items “We have turned to histo- minated in the discovery of
were toys that Bullrich said rians and they’ve told us it the collection began when
would have been used is the original magnifying authorities found artworks
to indoctrinate children, glass” that Hitler was us- of illicit origin in a gallery in
Members of the federal police carry a Nazi statue at the Interpol a large statue of the Nazi ing, said Nestor Roncaglia, north Buenos Aires.q
headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, June 16, 2017.
In a hidden room in a house near Argentina’s capital, police
discovered on June 8th the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts
in the country’s history. Authorities say they suspect they are
originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany dur-
ing World War II.
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

By DEBORA REY boxes with swastikas.
Associated Press Some 75 objects were
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina found in a collector’s home
(AP) — In a hidden room in in Beccar, a suburb north of
a house near Argentina’s Buenos Aires, and authori-
capital, police believe ties say they suspect they
they have found the big- are originals that belonged
gest collection of Nazi ar- to high-ranking Nazis in
tifacts in the country’s his- Germany during World War
tory, including a bust relief II.
of Adolf Hitler and magnify- “Our first investigations indi-
ing glasses inside elegant cate that these are original