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FILE - A police patrol car sits parked outside Argentina's embassy where some members of Venezuela's opposition are seeking asylum inside, in Caracas, Venezuela, July 31, 2024, three days after the contested presidential election. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Venezuelan opposition members in diplomatic compound urge swift actions to secure their safe passage

Associated Press

Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro attends the opening of 52nd General Assembly of the OAS in Lima, Peru, Oct. 5, 2022. The OAS communications director told the AP on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 that Almagro has invited the organization's staff leader to meet with him, shortly after receiving a letter from employees assuring him that they work in fear and in a &quot;harmful&quot; and unhealthy&quot; environment. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)

U.S. supports calls for external ethics probe into OAS chief

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 16, 2015 file photo, Organization of American States, OAS, Secretary-General Luis Almagro gives a news conference at the 45th OAS General Assembly, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

OAS head urges international prosecutor to act on Venezuela

By CLAUDIA TORRENS and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2018 file photo, Paulo Abrao, executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or IACHR, attends a hearing at the University Colorado in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

OAS chief under fire for removal of top rights official

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

Anti-corruption mission in Honduras in precarious position

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

AP Explains: A look at El Salvador’s new anti-graft body

By MARCOS ALEMÁN - Associated Press

Bolivia's President Evo Morales looks on during a press conference in La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019. Morales is calling for new presidential elections and an overhaul of the electoral system Sunday after a preliminary report by the Organization of American States found irregularities in the Oct. 20 elections. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

The Latest: UN chief urges restraint for Bolivians

Associated Press

Coca leaf producers march against the reelection of President Evo Morales, in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. Morales' backers and foes are blocking streets and highways across the country in a dispute over official election results that show the leftist leader winning reelection without a runoff. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Bolivia says OAS team to audit disputed election

By PAOLA FLORES and CARLOS VALDEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 12, 2019 file photo, El Salvador's President-elect Nayib Bukele speaks to the press at Mexico's National Palace after meeting with the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City. Bukele has inaugurated on Friday, Sept. 6, an anti-corruption commission with support from the Organization of American States. The move comes just after a similar U.N.-backed commission was shut down in Guatemala. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

El Salvador creates OAS-backed anti-corruption commission

Associated Press

Venezuelan migrants walk on the Pan-American Highway, after crossing the Ecuadorian border into Tumbes, Peru, Friday, June, 14, 2019. Those fleeing the troubled South American nation filed more than one in five of all asylum requests made in 2018. That’s higher than requests made by people escaping Afghanistan and Syria. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

OAS urges countries to accept fleeing Venezuelans as refugees

By Moss Brennan - The Washington Times

IDENTIFIES DANY BAHAR AS AN ECONOMIST AND NOT AS AN OPPOSITION LEADER - Economist Dany Bahar, left, Venezuelan opposition leader David Smolansky, center, and Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro, attend a session regarding the situation of Venezuelan migrants, during the 49th OAS General Assembly in Medellin, Colombia, Friday, June 28, 2019. The OAS meeting is expected to focus on Venezuela's crisis, including the impact from an exodus of Venezuelans into neighboring nations. The regional body is also expected to take diplomatic measures to pressure the Nicolas Maduro government to accept free elections with international monitoring.(AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

OAS task force: Venezuelan migrants need refugee status

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2017 file photo, a supporter of Bolivia's President Evo Morales waves a party flag during a march supporting his re-election, despite a referendum ruling out his run for a fourth term, in La Paz, Bolivia. The prominent human rights group Human Rights Watch says Bolivia has undermined judicial independence by arbitrarily dismissing nearly 100 judges since 2017 and it’s asking the Organization of American States to address the issue. HRW says the judges haven’t been given any reason for the dismissals by a Magistrates Council dominated by Morales' allies. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

Rights group alarmed by ouster of Bolivian judges

By CARLOS VALDEZ - Associated Press

A supporter of Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro, holds a sign that reads in Spanish &quot;OAS Hypocrites, Criminals&quot; during a government rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, April 27, 2019. The Trump administration has added Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza to a Treasury Department sanctions target list as it increases pressure on embattled President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan government denounces regional OAS forum

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Venezuelan opposition envoy addresses OAS

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

Asbina Marin, First Secretary and Alternate Representative of Venezuela to the Organization of American States (OAS), center, turns toward Hugo Cayrus Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the OAS, Tuesday April 9, 2019, as the OAS Permanent Council holds an extraordinary session on Venezuela at OAS headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

OAS recognizes opposition envoy as Venezuelan ambassador

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

Honduran prosecutors allege fraud in dam project

Associated Press

Juan Guaido, head of Venezuela's opposition-run congress, waves at supporters after declaring himself interim president of the South American country, during a rally demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Boris Vergara)

Mike Pompeo: Trump admin not backing down on Venezuela

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Discontinued Venezuelan bank notes hang above a cigarette stand in the San Jose del Avila neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. Working class neighborhoods in Venezuela's capital sifted through charred rubble and smoldering trash on Tuesday, following a day of isolated protests in response to the arrest of National Guardsmen who mounted an uprising against President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

The Latest: Venezuelan lawyers seeking protection for Guaido

Associated Press

OAS invokes Inter-American Democratic Charter on Nicaragua

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

Cuban diplomats disrupt UN meeting called by US on prisoners

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press