Organisation of American States

Organisation of American States
Membership	• Antigua and Barbuda • Argentina • the Bahamas • Barbados • Belize • Bolivia • Brazil • Canada • Chile • Colombia • Costa Rica • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Ecuador • El Salvador • Grenada • Guatemala • Guyana • Haiti • Honduras • Jamaica • Mexico • Nicaragua • Panama • Paraguay • Peru • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Suriname • Trinidad and Tobago • the United States • Uruguay • Venezuela
US dominated continental organization of North and South American states

The Organisation of American States or the OAS is a continental organisation that was founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states. Headquartered in the United States capital Washington, the OAS's members are the 35 independent states of North and South America.

As of 26 May 2015, the Secretary General of OAS is Luis Almagro.

 

Known Participants

29 of the 32 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Antigua and Barbuda	Small island nation in the Caribbean Sea, formerly part of the British Empire.
Argentina	Second biggest country in South America.
Barbados	Scenic Caribbean island nation. Formerly part of the British Empire
Belize	The only Central American country which is a Commonwealth realm.
Bolivia	Mountainous country in South America. Formerly part of the Spanish Empire.
Brazil	Very large and not particularly populous country which has made a priority of biofuels.
Canada	If tar sands are counted, Canada possesses the 3rd largest oil reserves of any nation state.
Chile	Spanish-speaking MEDC in South America. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
Colombia	Colombia is an important state in the trafficking of cocaine to North America.
Costa Rica	An armyless country between Nicaragua and Panama
Dominican Republic	Caribbean country; shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
Ecuador	Offered asylum to Julian Assange.
El Salvador	A small Spanish-speaking nation state in Central America. Brutal CIA proxy war in the 1980s
Grenada	A Caribbean island, that had a coup in the 1980s.
Guatemala	Country in Central America. High rates of poverty, crime, drug cartels, and instability.
Guyana	The only UK colony on the mainland on South America.
Haiti	Caribbean country; shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. The poorest country in North America, Haiti has faced natural disasters, economic crises and political instablity for many years.
Honduras	Central American country; formerly part of the Spanish Empire.
Jamaica	Caribbean island
Mexico	"Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!"
Nicaragua
Panama	Has a globally important shipping route.
Paraguay
Peru	Nation state in South America with cocaine growing capacity used by the SDS
Suriname
The Bahamas
Trinidad and Tobago	Former British colony in the Caribbean. Mainly consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago.
Uruguay
Venezuela	Venezuela possesses the world's largest oil reserves

 

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