Last November, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) asked an outside company to open an investigation to determine whether the Secretary General Luis Almagro he had violated the code of ethics for maintaining a sentimental relationship with an employee.

The report, which AFP had access to, was made by the Miller&Chevalier company and concluded that Almagro had not violated any rules on salary increases or conflicts of interest, but had “breached the OAS rules and regulations relating to common sense and common sense provisions “. and “additional ethical obligations for the Secretary-General”.

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The organization’s code of ethics dates back to 2012. The audit recommended reviewing the standards “in such a way as to avoid situations like this in the future” and estimates that it would benefit “from more extensive regulation of related behavior with intimate relationships.

Almagro has not denied the relationship with his subordinate, but it has already ended. The relationship was known to employees of the organization and caused discomfort among employees when they had to contact the woman who has been a member of the OAS Secretariat for Strengthening Democracy since 2019.

In November 2022, news broke about Luis Almagro’s relationship with a Mexican woman some 20 years his junior when delegates from the 34 countries arrived in the Peruvian capital for the annual meeting of the OAS.

“She was my partner [pareja] practically three years, on a personal level perhaps the best of my life,” Almagro said in November. According to an American financier, that relationship led to the divorce from his second wife in 2020.