The Organization of American States has announced it will hold an emergency meeting to discuss whether to suspend Venezuela for violating the OAS Charter. OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro said Tuesday that Venezuela had suffered “grave alterations of democratic order.” But supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have criticized the OAS for targeting Venezuela, not Brazil, where democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff was recently removed from power in what many have described as a coup. Maduro has criticized OAS for intervening in Venezuelan politics. He also criticized the U.S. political system and voiced support for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro: “If the U.S. elections were free, they wouldn’t depend on an archaic system that’s 200 years old, and Bernie Sanders would be president of the United States.”

We’ll speak with the Venezuelan ambassador to the OAS later in the broadcast.