Organization of American States
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Sep 11, 2026
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
According to the World Bank, the region has experienced the highest growth rate in cyber incidents worldwide, with annual increases of nearly 25% over the past decade.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
At the same time, the Cybersecurity Report for Latin America and the Caribbean, developed by the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB, and the Organization of American States, highlights significant opportunities to strengthen the protection of critical infrastructure, improve software quality, and develop specialized cybersecurity talent.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
Together, these indicators reflect a common reality across industries.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
Digital transformation is advancing faster than many organizations' ability to secure it.
Mark SchlackmanGUEST
Transition advisor to Governor Jeb Bush when he was coming into office on President Clinton's staff toward the end of his term in the office of the special envoy for the Americas within the White House.
Mark SchlackmanGUEST
When President Bush came in, transitioned to the Department of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, where this is, I just say this because one, it makes me smile, that one of the titles, it's quite long, Extendo Business Card, if we still use business cards these days, but alternate representative to the U.S. permanent mission to the Organization of American States.
Mark SchlackmanGUEST
Sorry.
Mark SchlackmanGUEST
Sorry.
Mark SchlackmanGUEST
So occasionally I had an opportunity to speak on behalf of the United States, which was, frankly, it's an honor and it was thrilling.
Mark SchlackmanGUEST
Many, many memories.
Mark SchlackmanGUEST
The OAS, the Organization of American States, is right down the block, a couple blocks from the White House, where my office was.
Mark SchlackmanGUEST
And then also served as interim foreign policy advisor to the four-star U.S. Marine Corps general at SELDCOM, who became chairman of the Joint Chiefs, President George W. Bush appointed.
speaker_0HOST
In March, authorities imprisoned opposition mayors Daniel Ceballos and Enzo Scarano, accusing them of failing to stop barricades.
speaker_0HOST
Maria Corina Machado was stripped of her National Assembly seat after accepting Panama's invitation to address the Organization of American States.
speaker_0HOST
Government institutions were being used to persecute its opponents.
speaker_0HOST
By April, the opposition faced a grim dilemma.
James StoryGUEST
He could try to pull us out of the UN, for goodness sakes.
James StoryGUEST
I mean, all these things are very difficult to do, but the Organization of American States, they don't really like multilateral diplomacy.
James StoryGUEST
Frankly, not to do that.
James StoryGUEST
It's difficult.
Rob MorrisHOST
Yeah.
Rob MorrisHOST
So Shield of Americas is sort of an ad hoc group, as if the Organization of American States wasn't already pro-US enough, that the Trump administration has put together with right-wing politicians that it agrees with.
Rob MorrisHOST
I think that's kind of an interesting place to start, is how successful is this policy of just full offensive against all Latin American politicians? I guess you could argue that, in fact, we have seen in Colombia, Chile, Honduras, and Bolivia, over the second Trump administration, all of those four countries have all shifted from left-leaning governments to right-leaning governments.
Rob MorrisHOST
And I think that that could be potentially seen as a success of the Trump administration's approach.
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Rob MorrisHOST
These are six-year presidential terms in Mexico.
Rob MorrisHOST
So, AMLO did something that I don't think anybody's done at least since the 1900s, at least since the 20th century in Mexico, which was basically anoint a successor.
Rob MorrisHOST
The United States, before Donald Trump, through the State Department, through the Organization of American States, through a wide variety of formal and informal connections, had a lot of ways that they could have AMLO was probably going to win in 2018 regardless.
Rob MorrisHOST
Donald Trump being president certainly helped as a reaction, because Trump is crazy.
MattHOST
Right
JaredPANELIST
... promised to address the, uh, Maria, Maria Ortega's, uh, violations of human rights, the-- this is a quote directly from them, including at forums like the Organization of American States.
JaredPANELIST
Now, that forum did just, did just, uh, conclude, so we may see, like, a ministerial forum for the OAS, uh, actually start conducting, conducting, um, [lip smacks] uh, uh, sorry, [chuckles] taking, taking actions against them.
JaredPANELIST
Sorry.
Simon WhistlerHOST
With his term almost over, President Eisenhower was pressuring Trillo to step down.
Simon WhistlerHOST
At the same time, the Organization of American States was following the lead of Venezuela's President, Romulo Betancourt, in demanding the Dominican Republic return to democracy.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Shaken, mistrustful, Trujillo responded the only way he knew how.
Simon WhistlerHOST
On June 24, 1960, the presidential car was driving Betancourt down one of the main avenues in Caracas when it was hit by the mother of all explosions.
speaker_5NARRATOR
My ideas were soon being labeled as those of a naive individualist and that of a social democrat.
speaker_5NARRATOR
In 1962, in an effort to counteract the anti-Cuban position adopted by the Organization of American States at Punta del Este, besieged Cuba organized a Latin American solidarity conference in Havana.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Although there were some white Americans present who had come with a group of observers from the Canadian Peace Council, I was the only U.S. citizen invited to speak as a representative of North America.
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In my speech, which was carried on Cuban radio and television, I said, The symbol of Americanism to me is the painful image of my brutally subjugated people tugging at their chains of oppression.
Liu XinHOST
That is known or nicknamed as the world's largest open air museum.
Liu XinHOST
You were Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Americas and the Organization of American States.
Liu XinHOST
You were Egypt's ambassador to Russia and Indonesia before.
Liu XinHOST
You also served as Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for International Legal Affairs and Treaties.
Evan EllisGUEST
The person who is the head of what used to be the former legitimate National Assembly, Deonora Figuera, is in talks with Jorge Rodriguez, the head of the essentially puppet Chavista Assembly.
Evan EllisGUEST
But the things that they're proposing, for example, to have local elections, the former secretary general of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, who I've had the pleasure of meeting and talking with, a very, very principled, wise man, came out recently criticizing this and saying, if you have subnational elections, you're just legitimizing basically this criminal group.
Evan EllisGUEST
And so in many ways, it's not clear that – it seems that we've got some stability, but it's not clear whether that stability is getting us any closer to democracy.
Evan EllisGUEST
And certainly the tactical decision that was made to exclude the legitimately elected government of Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzalez and Maria Corina Machado, again, elected back in July 28, 2024, by an overwhelming margin publicly proven by the vote counts that they showed.
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