Tag: Organization of American States

• 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.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Calls in opposition city Santa Cruz to paralyze Bolivian government institutions and to march on La Paz

  

  A civic leader urged Bolivians to “paralyze” government institutions and block the borders as protests sparked by the contentious election victory last month of President Evo Morales entered their third week on Monday.

• Thursday, October 10th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Elections in Bolivia will have 92 OAS observers deployed

  

  The presidential election in Bolivia on October 20 will count with an Electoral Observation Mission from the Organization of American States (OAS), led by the former Foreign Minister of Costa Rica, Manuel González.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  OAS develops inter American cooperation network on counterterrorism

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) will launch the Inter-American Network on Counterterrorism, a project aimed at strengthening cooperation between member states to prevent and address terrorist threats in the Western Hemisphere.

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  OAS General Secretariat statement on the situation in Peru

  

  It is the political responsibility of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (GS / OAS) to ensure compliance with the effective exercise of representative democracy as the basis of the rule of law and constitutional regimes.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:38 UTC

  Vatican will have a Permanent Observer at OAS

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, will have a new Permanent Observer, from the Vatican, Monsignor Mark Gerald Miles, who on Monday presented his credentials to Secretary-General Luis Almagro.

• Monday, September 16th 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Nicaragua bars entry of OAS commission sent to broker end to the political crisis

  

  A commission from the Organization of American States seeking to help broker an end to a political crisis in Nicaragua said on Sunday the government of President Daniel Ortega had barred its entry into the Central American country.

• Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  OAS General Assembly after two days of debate remains divided on Venezuela

  

  Members of the Organization of American States (OAS) ended two days of meetings on Friday without a clear plan for increasing pressure on embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, despite a majority vote to recognize a representative from the country's opposition.

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  Total vote recount ordered in Guatemala's Sunday presidential election

  

  Guatemala will hold a total vote recount after fraud allegations in the wake of last Sunday's presidential and legislative elections, the country's Supreme Electoral Court announced on Thursday.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Agreement to implement an ambitious Plata basin that benefits six countries

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee of the countries of the Plata Basin (CIC) signed an agreement on Monday for the project “Preparing the ground for the Implementation of the Strategic Action Program for the La Plata Basin,” during a ceremony at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.