FORESHADOWING:

Rivals for U.N. Council Seat Reach Deal to Back Panama (Associated Press, November 2, 2006)

Guatemala and Venezuela agreed Wednesday to withdraw from the race for a seat on the U.N. Security Council and support Panama as a consensus candidate, Ecuador's U.N. ambassador said.

With the backing of the two countries, Panama's election to a two-year term on the Security Council is virtually certain.

There's a good lesson there for the Venezuelans: they too can have the seat once we've regime changed them as we did Panama.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 2, 2006 10:59 AM