The General Assembly finances the regular fund by setting country quotas, which are based on members’ capacities to pay. The OAS has a regular fund that supports the General Secretariat, and a specific fund geared toward particular programs and initiatives. The OAS currently has observation missions in six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Grenada, Mexico, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Other recent initiatives include establishing a working group to address mass migration from Venezuela supporting the creation of an anticorruption commission in El Salvador and collaborating with member governments, regional institutions, and private companies to improve cybersecurity. In 2021, the OAS sent election observation missions to Bolivia, El Salvador, and Peru, among other countries.
Several autonomous institutions carry out OAS functions, including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Juridical Committee. Its primary functions are promoting democracy, coordinating security and law enforcement operations, providing technical and financial assistance for development projects, and monitoring human rights through the inter-American legal system. Since then, its membership has increased to thirty-five states the number of permanent observers dropped to seventy-one in April 2022 after Russia was suspended in response to its invasion of Ukraine. The OAS emerged a year after member states signed the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, known as the Rio Treaty, which established a defensive military alliance in the region. Member states pledged to strengthen regional peace and security, promote representative democracy, and encourage economic and social cooperation. Additionally, the United States hoped the new organization would serve as a bulwark against the spread of communism. The United States and twenty other governments in the Western Hemisphere signed the OAS charter in 1948 to increase regional security and commercial cooperation.
president to skip its headline meeting, President Joe Biden has signaled his administration’s desire to renew U.S. While President Donald Trump showed his ambivalence toward the OAS by becoming the first U.S.
Since the 2021 killing of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, the country’s deteriorating security climate has also posed a challenge for the bloc, and Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has proved to be yet another divisive issue. The OAS has come under renewed focus in recent years for criticizing democratic decline in Nicaragua and persistently condemning Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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