Well, they got rid of him, with massive abstentions from countries that didn't feel like defying the US, but didn't want to vote for a stitch-up either. (The UK of course backed the USA to the hilt.)

Here's a news story about it from today's Guardian

And here is an article also from today's Guardian about this and other similar stuff that is going down.

Here's a quote:

On Friday, the US ambassador to the OPCW organised an illegal meeting with American members of the organisation's staff. ...But the ambassador explained that if the replacement is "like Bustani we will say 'screw the organisation'. We'll dismantle our [chemical] weapons independently and monitor them ourselves".

The US had promised that the directorship would pass to another Latin American. But the ambassador was kind enough to note that "Latin Americans are so characterised by sheer incompetence that they won't be able to make up their minds". He warned the meeting "if any of this gets out of this room, I'll kill the person responsible".

Another victory for the people who want to see America act in a way that in the long run threatens to destroy it.