United States of America

Economic Commission for Latin America
CEPAL

The Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) was set up under Resolution 106 (VI) passed by the Economic and Social Council on February 25, 1948 and started off that same year. In its Resolution 1984/67 dated July 27, 1984, the council voted the Commission be renamed Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
CEPAL is one of the UN’s five regional commissions and it’s headquartered in Santiago de Chile. It was founded with a view to help in Latin America’s economic development, in the coordination of actions aimed at promoting and buttressing that development among the member countries and the rest of the world. Later on, it scope embraced Caribbean nations and a new objective to foster social development was added to its agenda.
CEPAL counts on two sub-regional headquarters: one for Central America based in Mexico, D.F. and a second one for the Caribbean in Port of Spain, established on June 1951 and December 1996 respectively. Moreover, the organization has national offices in Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo and Bogota, plus a liaison office in Washington, D.C.

http://www.un.org/Docs/SG/SG-Rpt/ch3d-3.htm

Free Trade Agreement
FTA

Treaty signed by Canada, the United States and Mexico to encourage development and trade, the treaty of three as it is usually known.

http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org

Group of 8
G-8

The Group of 8 (G-8), formerly the G-7, consists of the world’s eight most industrialized nations with free-market economies that meet on a regular basis to coordinate their economic policies and tackle matters of mutual interest. They are Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and Russia. The G-8 has traditionally borne both responsibilities and functions of the G-5 –established in New York on September 22, 1985- by the ministers of economy from Germany, the U.S., France, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Canada and Italy joined the group later on and the G-7 was born. With the addition of Russia on May 1998, the group turned into the G-8. The economic transformation of Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union, less taxes and tariffs on international trade and nuclear proliferation are just some of the issues the G-8 has recently broached.
International Criminal Police Organization
INTERPOL

On June 13, 1956, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) replaced the International Criminal Police Commission founded in 1923. This organization serves as an information and database center on criminal activities used by law enforcement agencies from 177 countries. Each member nation relies on a national office that receives information from the INTERPOL and dole it out among its local offices and agencies nationwide. INTERPOL keeps a close eye on drug smuggling and money laundering operations. Shortly after World War II, INTERPOL was directly run by the Nazi Party and that situation remained so through the entire war . In 1938, its headquarters were moved from Vienna (Austria) to Berlin (Germany). Today, the headquarters are in Lyon, France

http://www.interpol.int

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OECD

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is an international intergovenrmental organization which gathers the most industrialized countries of the economy market. At OCDE, the representatives of member countries meet to exchange information and harmonize policies with the objective of minimizing its economic development and contributing to its development and that of the non member countries. OCDE has its roots in 1948, in the Organization for Economic European Cooperation that was aimed at managing the Marshall Plan for the European reconstruction. In 1960, the Marshall Plan has already fulfilled its goal and the member countries agreed to invite the United States and Canada to set up an organization that coordinate the policies between the western countries. The new organization was named Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and its headquarters is in Paris.OCDE is the largest world producer of publications on economy and social matters with over 500 titles a year, other working documents and other publishing products.

http://www.oecd.org