Editing César Gaviria (section)

===Secretary General of the OAS===
[[Image:Gaviriaoas.png|thumb|left|200px|Gaviria heading the OAS session (left) and then US Secretary of State, [[Colin Powell]].]]
In 1994, Gaviria was elected Secretary General of the [[Organization of American States|OAS]] (his term beginning after the end of his presidential term in August 1994). Reelected in 1999, he worked extensively on behalf of Latin America. Between October 2002 and May 2003, he served as international facilitator of the OAS mesa process, aimed at finding a solution to the internal [[Venezuela]]n political crisis between President [[Hugo Chávez]] and the [[Coordinadora Democrática (Venezuela)|Coordinadora Democrática]] opposition.<ref name=cooper>Andrew F. Cooper, and Thomas Legler (2005), "A Tale of Two Mesas: The OAS Defense of Democracy in Peru and Venezuela," ''Global Governance'' 11(4)</ref>

[[File:Cesar Gaviria y Horacio Serpa.jpg|right|thumb|L-R: Gaviria, [[Julián De La Chica]], and [[Horacio Serpa]], 14 October 2003]]