The OAS’s Existential Challenge
Washington is threatening to walk away from one of the hemisphere's most essential institutions. The region needs to say something about it.
When prosecutors and judges in Guatemala attempted to nullify a clean election result in 2023, observers from the Organization of American States (OAS) remained in the country and pressed for the transfer of power to proceed. Along the Belize-Guatemala border, decades of OAS-sponsored mediation have kept a territorial dispute from escalating. In Colombia, the OAS Mission to Support the Peace Process has monitored and verified commitments that have strengthened confidence in a decades-long peacebuilding effort. These are not ceremonial achievements. They are the kind of...
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