(Petroleumworld) - "President Hugo Chávez said to a group of reporters that United States Empire suffered a great and humiliating defeat in its move to condemn Venezuela internationally for a lack of press freedom for not renewing a concession to a TV channel, at the 37th meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly, in Panama

The OAS did not adopt the U.S. proposal to investigate his government's removal of Radio Caracas Television channel from the air.

'A great defeat for the empire... a moral defeat, a political defeat', said Chávez

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