OAS secretary-general vows to fight racism, anti-Semitism

Jose Miguel Insulza, the new secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS), has pledged that under his leadership, the group would do everything possible to fight xenophobia, racial discrimination, anti-Semitism and terrorism throughout Latin America. “We are all following the AMIA investigation closely,” the Chilean told the "Jewish Telegraphic Agency". Insulza noted that the OAS has been involved in the case since 1998, when Memoria Activa, a group of victims’ relatives, filed a petition with the body’s Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to force the Argentine government to find those responsible. In March, the Chilean attorney Claudio Grossman, an observer to the human-rights commission, had accused Argentine officials during and since the administration of former president Carlos Menem of intentionally misleading investigators probing the attack, which many believe was the work of Iranian terrorists connected to Hezbollah.