The secretary general.

• Position: Organization of American States - Brief article

The secretary general must drive the OAS. The effectiveness of the OAS critically depends on the consistent, vigorous, and sometimes risk-taking leadership of the secretary general. The secretary general should make clear his priorities for OAS initiatives, offer a broad strategy for pursuing those priorities, propose courses of action in specific circumstances, and use his political skills and powers of persuasion to mobilize the backing of national governments for his agenda. Where there are...