I'm John Dux with my good colleague, Professor Avanellas.

We're looking at the Americas.

This is the New World Report.

But we're looking with the filter of Iran and its surrogates and Iran and its allies, Moscow

and Beijing and Pyongyang.

We start with the OAS, however, because there is a question raised that may be outside of

the Iranian question.

You never know.

Iran supports bad acting everywhere as a way to undermine the authority of its adversary

in the United States.

Evan, we've spoken of the OAS as once upon a time a dominant story in the America's 19th, 20th century.

But now not considered a top-of-the-line story.

I have a photograph of the meeting of the OAS an emergency session during the Cuban Missile

crisis.

It was much in the news.

That was 1962.

But now there is a new president of the OAS, a veteran diplomat from Guyana, and there's a new

charge to the OAS to take charge of Haiti, which frightens or backs away or discourages every major state.

What, to your knowledge, is the decision at the OAS about taking on Haiti?

What announcements do we have from its present meeting?

Well, it's a great question, John, because the OAS in many ways is, although widely regarded as, you know, somewhat dysfunctional because of the need for consensus among its members in addressing major divisive foreign policy issues.

But if you look at it the instruments of the Inter-American system have played a role in the past and have the potential to play at least more

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