Belize's Permanent Representative to the OAS - Ambassador Nestor Mendez is tonight preparing for one of the biggest days of his life as a career diplomat: he's seeking to become the OAS Assistant Secretary General in elections which will be held tomorrow. It is one of only two elected posts inside the OAS - and he is the first Belizean seeking such high office. He is going up against his Guyanaese counterpart, Bayney Karran,
Tonight, we spoke via telephone with Mendez from Washington where he told us he is optimistic about the support he has been promised by different member states but that there are no sure things, and it won't be over until the last vote is counted.
The election for Assistant Secretary General takes place at 2:00 tomorrow afternoon and it will be streamed live on the OAS website. We'll have the result in tomorrow's newscast.
Mendez is originally from the village of San Antonio Rio Hondo in the Orange Walk District.
And while the race for assistant secretary general will see Mendez facing off against a Guyanese diplomat, there is no longer any race for Secretary General.
Guatemalan Diplomat, Eduardo Stein who had indicated that he would run for Secretary General dropped out of the race in mid January. That means that , Uruguayan, Luis Almagros is unopposed and the election is only a formality; he will replace Jose Miguel Insulza.
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