The Organization of American States is an international organization founded on April 30, 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., OAS is a "multilateral regional body focused on human rights, electoral oversight, social and economic development, and security in the Western Hemisphere," according to the Council on Foreign Relations. As of June 2023, 35 states in the Americas are OAS members. Since the 1990s, the organization has focused on election monitoring. Luis Almagro was inaugurated as OAS secretary general in 2015.
Cable News Network en Español is a Pan-American Spanish-language news channel, owned by CNN Global, a news division for Warner Bros. Discovery. It was launched on pay television, on March 17, 1997.
The Organization of American States Secretary General election was a series of special sessions of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) held during 2005 in Washington, D.C., United States to elect a new Secretary General. The first special session, held on 11 April 2005 at the OAS headquarters, ended in a tie between Chile's Interior Minister José Miguel Insulza and Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez, and forced the Organization to schedule a second round of elections for 2 May 2005 to end the unprecedented stalemate. On 29 April 2005, Mexico withdrew its candidate, which allowed Chile's Insulza to be elected in the next special session as Secretary General, with 31 votes, two abstentions and one vote left blank.
República Deportiva is a weekly one-hour sports show on the Spanish-language American television network Univision. The program airs on every Sunday.
Globovisión is a 24-hour television news network. It broadcasts over-the-air in Caracas, Aragua, Carabobo and Zulia on UHF channel 33. Globovisión is seen in the rest of Venezuela on cable or satellite and worldwide from their website. Some of Globovisión's programs can be seen in the United States on cable network Canal Sur and TV Venezuela, a channel offered in DirecTV's Para Todos package. In Latin America, Globovision can be seen in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and other territories as Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Curaçao in DirecTV's package.
V-me is a Hispanic-Latino American Spanish-language television network, formerly carried as an over-the-air public broadcasting network in association with public television stations. V-me airs drama, music, current affairs, food, lifestyle, nature and educational preschool content.
Noticias Univision is the news division of Univision, an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by the Univision Television Group division of TelevisaUnivision. The news division is based out of the network's facilities, referred to as the "NewsPort", in the Miami suburb of Doral, Florida, which it shares with sister English language news channel Fusion and Univision's flagship owned-and-operated station WLTV-DT.
Jorge Ottati is a television and radio sports announcer who currently works for beIN SPORTS. His father is Prof. Jorge Ottati, a renowned sportscaster.
Elizabeth Pérez is a Cuban-Venezuelan-American television journalist and presenter working for CNN en Español in Miami, Florida.
Adrian Vallarino is an Uruguayan television and film, producer and director, journalist and cinematographer. Vallarino's career started at the early age of 12 during the 1980 Mundialito, where he worked as a cameraman assistant. In 2004 and 2005 Vallarino produced and directed the Fear Factor-like series Gana la Verde for Liberman Broadcasting in Los Angeles, where winning contestants were promised legal representation to help them pursue a Green Card. During his long career Vallarino has been awarded multiple awards and recognitions.
Luis Leonardo Almagro Lemes is a Uruguayan lawyer, diplomat, and politician who currently serves as the 10th Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) since 2015. A former member of the Broad Front, Almagro served as Minister of Foreign Relations of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 under president José Mujica.
Adolfo Esteban Elizaincín Eichenberger is a Uruguayan scholar and linguist.
Venezuela has an embassy in Montevideo. Uruguay has an embassy in Caracas and a consulate in Maracaibo.
Directo USA is a daily news program on CNN en Español hosted by Juan Carlos Lopez. Directo USA covers the hottest events in the United States with in-depth interviews and analysis of how they affect the Americas.
Aquí y Ahora is a Spanish-language newsmagazine that is broadcast on the Univision television network in the United States on Sundays at 7:00 pm ET/ 6:00 CT. The show was launched in 1998 and is presented by Ilia Calderón. Aquí y Ahora presents stories that document the Latino experience in the United States. The program's memorable stories are compelling, surprising and revealing while providing context, perspective and balance. A team of dedicated and experienced story tellers will take you places where news is breaking, and also bring human-interest dramas, mystery and in-depth investigations. In 2012, the show achieved national attention as it aired an investigation on the Fast and Furious scandal, for which it later received a Peabody Award.
Doña María Cristina Vilanova Castro de Árbenz was the First Lady of Guatemala from 1951-1954, as wife of the Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán.
Noticias Telemundo is the news division of Telemundo, an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by NBCUniversal Hispanic Enterprises and Content, a subsidiary of the NBCUniversal Television Group division of NBCUniversal. The news division is based out of the network's facilities in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida.
Geovanny Vicente-Romero is a Dominican political strategist, lawyer, columnist, international consultant and university professor who teaches strategic communications at Columbia University as an associate lecturer. He specializes in public policy and public administration, and has several years of experience in the public sector, academics, and journalism. He writes a weekly column for CNN as a political analyst.
