LatinNews Daily - 17 March 2025

Suriname/Region: On 10 March the US State Department released a statement congratulating Suriname’s Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin on his election that day as the next secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the 2025-2030 term. Ramdin, who will become the first Caribbean OAS chief, takes over from Uruguay’s former foreign minister (2010-2015), Luis Almagro. The US State Department press release cites US Secretary of State Marco Rubio as saying that he “looks forward to working with Secretary General-elect Ramdin to uphold the OAS’s core mission of defending democracy, promoting and protecting human rights, as well as advancing security and economic prosperity throughout our hemisphere”. It adds that the US believes that “a stable, secure, and prosperous hemisphere is vital to advancing the [Donald] Trump Administration’s priorities to make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous”. It also underlines that the US is “committed to strengthening alliances with democratic partners to confront shared regional challenges, especially illegal migration, transnational crime, and the corrupt authoritarian regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.”

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