Latin American Solidarity Organization
The Latin American Solidarity Organization (in Spanish: ''Organización Latinoamericana de Solidaridad''; in Portuguese: ''Organização Latino-Americana de Solidariedade''), or simply OLAS, was an organization created in August 1967 in Cuba on the initiative of the then president of Chile, Salvador Allende, composed of several revolutionary and anti-imperialist movements in Latin America that, to a greater or lesser extent, shared the strategic proposals of the Cuban Revolution. The organization's motto was "The duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution". History The proposal to create OLAS came about after the success of the ''Primera Conferencia Tricontinental de Solidaridad Revolucionaria'' (First Tricontinental Conference on Revolutionary Solidarity) held in January 1966, in which more than five hundred delegates from revolutionary organizations from Asia, Africa and Latin America gathered. The conference took place years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and t ...
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