UNITED NATIONS Latin American countries could not break a deadlock over competing Venezuelan and Guatemalan bids for a U.N. Security Council seat on Wednesday, a failure that highlighted the regional divisions that will make compromise difficult.
Neither Venezuela nor Guatemala appears to have much chance of mustering the necessary two-thirds majority in the 192-nation General Assembly to win the seat, a scenario that would normally spur the region to present an alternate for the seat reserved for Latin American and Caribbean nations. But the region's 32 nations are so split in their allegiances, and there are so many other possible candidates, that no diplomats are talking compromise for now.
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