Will Insulza be re-elect in the OAS?

Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

The vote to elect the Secretary General of the OAS is scheduled for March 24, 2010, and Hillary Clinton, probably not coincidentally, was sent to Latin America just days before this election. In 2005, the vote was complicated by a strong tie, broken precisely by the U.S. by convincing the other candidate to withdraw for the benefit of Insulza.

Currently, we don't know exactly the Obama's plans for this new election in the OAS -and if they would succeed-, but despite the change in the United States presidency, and that Insulza has transformed the OAS into an institution with deteriorated standards, it is likely that the Chilean lawyer continues to be the Secretary General of this organization. We believe this because no country has proposed a new candidate at the moment, and Insulza seems to have now the backing of some countries -Mexico, Bolivia- who did not vote for him in 2005.

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