Organization of American States (OAS) secretary-general, Uruguayan Luis Almagro, is under investigation by the agency after he was denounced for having a romantic relationship with an OAS official, Mexican Marián Vidaurri, the Associated Press Agency (PA) reported. .
The hemispheric organization has been analyzing – since July at the latest – whether the former Uruguayan foreign minister has violated the institution’s code of ethics, which states that “employees and other service providers should not allow any intimate relationship with another employee or service provider with the performance of their duties or disadvantaged.” others in the workplace.
According to the AP, the investigation is labeled “Alleged Misconduct by a Senior OAS Official” and began after the body received an anonymous complaint about the relationship, which was public anyway and had been addressed by both the Secretary General of the OAS and his Partner in the book Luis Almagro does not ask forgiveness, published in November 2020 by journalists Gonzalo Ferreira and Martín Natalevich.
Some officials assured AP that there were times when those involved created uneasiness in the workplace: Two workers were seen kissing at a 2019 OAS general assembly in Medellín, while another saw them holding hands at a 2020 meeting.
Vidaurri also recognized the relationship in the book published in 2020. “It was and is a connection in all dimensions. Very deep and very intense,” he said of his connection with Almagro.
The woman even revealed to the Uruguayan some jokes she used to make: “I always tell him: ‘I’m smarter because it took me no more than thirty-eight years to know you, it took you about fifty years'” .
Almagro admitted in the book that Vidaurri was part of his small advisory board, and the Mexican revealed that she worked directly for him after a trip to Philadelphia.
“It was on a Friday and on Monday he called me into his office and said: ‘Come work with me,'” says the Mexican political scientist.
Previously she worked at the Secretariat for the Strengthening of Democracy (SFD) as Head of the Department of Political Analysis and Prospects.
“The female sex had a very important force. A very important driving force,” Almagro admitted in the biography of Ferreira and Natalevich.
And he continues: “There is something that Juan Ramón Carrasco said. They asked him when he would have played better. And he answered: When he had a new girlfriend,” he says, laughing. “Somehow I felt identified with Juan Ramón Carrasco”.
Almagro says of falling in love on many occasions that sometimes it’s “impossible” not to be: “I left pieces of leather on the fence. I left pieces of meat on the fence. I would have liked to have had something sturdier.” in the beginning and having all these much quieter personal variables. I think it would have been better in many ways. Maybe not. I don’t know,” he said in Luis Almagro doesn’t apologize.
The OAS probe comes weeks after the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) removed its President Mauricio Claver-Carone from office when he still had a three-year term in office after it was found he had violated an ethics rule about the institution by maintaining a close relationship with its chief of staff.
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