“The OAS is at its worst; it could be on the verge of collapse”

<p>In this interview, Dominican Ambassador Josué Fiallo, ex-president of the OAS Permanent Council, paints a picture of regional multilateralism undermined by its own weight and pushed to the brink by Donald Trump’s return to the White House: “If you kill it and think you're going to be able to solve everything, you're going to wear yourself out putting out fires all by yourself,” he warns. He knows this firsthand, having helped in 2023 to quell a coup attempt that threatened to burn the Guatemalan elections to the ground.</p>

Roman Gressier