Ambassador Roger F. Noriega
Roger F. Noriega served as U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) from January 2001 to July 2003. The following is from a speech delivered by Ambassador Noriega to the OAS Permanent Council on Human Rights in Cuba, in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2003. (Noriega became the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs on July 29, 2003.)"Los pueblos de America tienen derecho a la democracia y sus gobiernos la obligacion de promoverla y defenderla." [The peoples of America have the right to democracy, and their governments the obligation to promote and defend it.]Those words,…
