The current Secretary General of the OEA the Uruguayan Luis Almagro, was expelled from the ruling Frente Amplio (FA) of that South American country. The final measure was adopted unanimously in the Plenary of this political coalition, its broadest and most representative body.



Almagro, lawyer and career diplomat, was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the cabinet headed by José Pepe Mújica, between 2010 and 2015, and in 2014 was proposed by that Uruguayan president, as a candidate for the OEA secretariat.



The reasons for the separation of Almagro from the ranks of the Frente Amplio have been his permanent attitude of intimidation against the legitimate Government of Venezuela, in coordination with the US authorities and the reactionary governments of the region.

The popular and charismatic ex-President José (Pepe) Mujica had already distanced himself from the attitudes and positions of his former chancellor in 2015 when, by means of a short and clear message, he said:

"I regret the course you took and I know it is irreversible, that's why now I formally say goodbye to you."

Almagro had already been sanctioned to one year of suspension of militancy in the Frente Amplio for his clearly interventionist positions and actions against Venezuela in the OEA, but the drop that has filled the glass have been the recent and reiterated declaration by the General Secretary and serious indications of a potential military intervention encouraged by the US, with the participation of Colombia and Brazil, that he did not rule out “any option".



An attitude in clear contradiction with the declaration of the II meeting of the CELAC (Summit of Latin American and Caribbean States), held in Havana, of the region as “Zone of Peace”. Which is why neither the Frente Amplio nor the Government of Uruguay, want to be related to a Luis Almagro.