Mexico in the OAS: Traditional Positions and Thesis

This essay describes and analyses the transformations experienced by the OAS which have occurred at the same time as the political changes in the world, as well as the positions Mexico has assumed within this regional organization. In addition of describing some of the crises lived by the inter-American organization, such as those due to the conflicts in Central America or the excessive influence of the United States, that resulted in a growing lack of credibility in the OAS, the author states that, beginning in the eighties, the organization began to play a more constructive role. In terms of Mexico’s position in the oas, the essay underlines the Mexican viewpoint in the treatment of topics such as hemispheric security, democracy and democratization, human rights, and the fight against drug trafficking. In the author’s opinion, the idea is to encourage constructive dialogue to strengthen political understandings and allow deeper inter-American cooperation through the OAS.