Institution

Organization of American States

1948 · 20th century

The Organization of American States (OAS) is a regional organisation of the states of the Americas, founded in Bogotá in 1948 and based in Washington, DC. It promotes democracy, human rights, security and development, and it arranged the ceasefire in the Football War between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. It suspended Honduras after the coup of 2009 and readmitted it in 2011.

Organization of American States
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Organization of American States. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/organization-of-american-states
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