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Rethinking the OAS: A Forum

By Pía Riggirozzi, Andrew F. Cooper, Rodrigo Páez Montalbán, Jessica Byron , Oliver Stuenkel

Latin America specialists share their perspectives on the organization's future—and on whether it has one.

Growing regional divisions between—but not limited to—the north and the rest of the hemisphere and the emergence of new regional organizations have focused attention on the role and purpose of the 66-year-old Organization of American States (OAS). This discussion comes as the 10-year term of the much-criticized Secretary General José Miguel Insulza draws to an end. Under his watch, the OAS leadership has failed to raise its voice against a number of assaults on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), and played a decreasing role in election observation. Similarly, the...

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