Tag: Nestor Mendez

• Saturday, March 21st 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  OAS General Assembly re-elects Luis Almagro as Secretary General

  

  The 54th Special General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Friday re-elected Luis Almagro as Secretary-General and Nestor Mendez as Assistant Secretary-General of the Organization.

• Thursday, August 24th 2017 - 07:25 UTC

  Hunger, one of the main causes of migration to U.S. from the “Dry Corridor”

  

  A new report presented at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) finds that migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to the United States is motivated in large part by poverty and hunger, aggravated by drought conditions associated with the El Niño phenomenon that began in 2014.

• Thursday, March 19th 2015 - 08:27 UTC

  Belize representative elected OAS Assistant Secretary General

  

  The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) elected on Wednesday the Permanent Representative of Belize, Ambassador Nestor Mendez, as the next Assistant Secretary General of the hemispheric institution.