US FAILS IN OAS MEETING

The final declaration of the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly did not include Condoleezza Rice's proposal to "monitor democracies". Analysts interpret this as a big US failure. On the other hand US officials have rushed to declare the meeting a success. Beyond the PR war the actual winner of the meeting will be defined by the current Bolivian crisis. If there is an intervention and democracy is restored then we can talk of a US victory. That scenario, however, is very unlikely.