Mexican President Proposes Replacing OAS With New Institution

  • Mexico’s AMLO said new organization should be truly autonomous
  • Mexico, Argentina have had tense ties with OAS leader Almagro

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Photographer: Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador proposed on Saturday replacing the Washington-based Organization of American States with what he called a more independent institution.

“The substitution of the OAS can’t be ruled out for a truly autonomous organization -- not a servant to anyone, but a mediator,” Lopez Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, said in remarks at the annual summit for the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.