Organization of American States (OAS)
- Organization of American States (OAS)
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It promotes economic, military, and cultural cooperation among its members, which include almost all the independent states of the Western Hemisphere. (
Cuba's membership was suspended in 1962.) The OAS's main goals are to maintain peace in the Western Hemisphere and to prevent intervention in the region by any outside state. Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, the OAS has more actively encouraged democratic government in member states, in part by organizing missions to observe and monitor elections. See also
Alliance for Progress;
Inter-American Development Bank.
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Universalium.
2010.
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