OPANAL

The OPANAL (which stands for el Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe) is an international organization which promotes a non-aggression pact and nuclear disarmament in much of the Americas. In English, its name is the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The agency was created as a result of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, ratified in 1969, which forbids its signatory nations from use, storage, or transport of nuclear weapons.

The first official Secretary General was Leopoldo Benites from Ecuador.[1]

Member nations

Antigua and Barbuda  Argentina  Bahamas  Barbados  Belize  Bolivia  Brazil  Chile  Colombia  Costa Rica  Cuba

Dominica  Dominican Republic  Ecuador  El Salvador  Grenada  Guatemala  Guyana  Haiti  Honduras  Jamaica  Mexico

Nicaragua  Panama  Paraguay  Peru  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Lucia  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Suriname  Trinidad and Tobago  Uruguay  Venezuela

References

1. SECRETARY GENERALS Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 2010

See also

• Association of Caribbean States
• Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
• International Atomic Energy Agency
• International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
• Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero
• Anti-nuclear organizations
• List of books about nuclear issues
• List of films about nuclear issues

External links

• OPANAL.org - official site, English and Spanish versions