Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has decried Cuba's exclusion from the summit, prompting this response from Jeffrey Davidow.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Protesters have decried heavy-handed police tactics that have resulted in hundreds of arrests and highway blockades.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

Those who decried the plight of Palestinian civilians trapped inside Israeli-blockaded Gaza also pointed to Egypt's role in keeping its border to the besieged territory largely closed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Through a translator, Afghan President Hamid Karzai decried the bloodshed and violence wracking his country and appealed to his two neighbors to help find solutions to it.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

The Iranian lawmaker decried the extension of U.S.sanctions against Iran for another year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, who was once Tehran's top nuclear negotiator, decried the draft deal Saturday, accusing the West of "trying to cheat and impose will on us,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

She also decried dowry-related murder and so-called "honor killings" of young women, and selective abortion and infanticide of females in many countries that has created the phenomenon of millions of "missing women."

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

In a rare meeting with Republican Party lawmakers Friday, President Barack Obama decried the partisan politics of the past and urged both parties to work together on creating more jobs for Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29