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{{Infobox international organization
| name                     = Treaty of Tlatelolco
| full_name                = Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean<ref name="UIA">{{Cite web |url=https://uia.org/s/or/en/1100032684 |url-access= |title=Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean |author1=Staff writer |year=2024 |department=UIA Global Civil Society Database |website=uia.org |publisher=[[Union of International Associations]] |agency=Yearbook of International Organizations Online |location=Brussels, Belgium |format= |arxiv= |asin= |bibcode= |doi= |doi-broken-date= |isbn= |issn= |jfm= |jstor= |lccn= |mr= |oclc= |ol= |osti= |pmc= |pmid= |rfc= |ssrn= |zbl= |id= |access-date=24 December 2024 |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |via= |quote= |trans-quote= |ref= }}</ref>
| native_name              = Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe
| formation                = 14 February 1967
| headquarters             = [[Mexico City]]
| language                 = Spanish
| sec_gen                  = [[Flavio Roberto Bonzanini]]
| website                  = {{URL|https://www.opanal.org/}}
}}

The '''OPANAL''' ('''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 weapon]]s.

The first official secretary general was [[Leopoldo Benites]] from Ecuador.<ref>[http://www.opanal.org/opanal/Secret-Gral/ant_sgrali.htm SECRETARY GENERALS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716152542/http://www.opanal.org/opanal/Secret-Gral/ant_sgrali.htm |date=16 July 2011 }}, accessed April 2010</ref>

==Member nations==
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*{{flagu|Antigua and Barbuda}}
*{{flagu|Argentina}}
*{{flagu|Bahamas}}
*{{flagu|Barbados}}
*{{flagu|Belize}}
*{{flagu|Bolivia}}
*{{flagu|Brazil}}
*{{flagu|Chile}}
*{{flagu|Colombia}}
*{{flagu|Costa Rica}}
*{{flagu|Cuba}}
||
*{{flagu|Dominica}}
*{{flagu|Dominican Republic}}
*{{flagu|Ecuador}}
*{{flagu|El Salvador}}
*{{flagu|Grenada}}
*{{flagu|Guatemala}}
*{{flagu|Guyana}}
*{{flagu|Haiti}}
*{{flagu|Honduras}}
*{{flagu|Jamaica}}
*{{flagu|Mexico}}
||
*{{flagu|Nicaragua}}
*{{flagu|Panama}}
*{{flagu|Paraguay}}
*{{flagu|Peru}}
*{{flagu|Saint Kitts and Nevis}}
*{{flagu|Saint Lucia}}
*{{flagu|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}}
*{{flagu|Suriname}}
*{{flagu|Trinidad and Tobago}}
*{{flagu|Uruguay}}
*{{flagu|Venezuela}}
|}

== See also ==
* [[De-escalation]]
* [[Association of Caribbean States]]
* [[Community of Latin American and Caribbean States]]
* [[International Atomic Energy Agency]]
* [[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons]]
* [[Non Aligned Movement]]
* [[Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero]]
* [[Anti-nuclear organizations]]
* [[List of books about nuclear issues]]
* [[List of films about nuclear issues]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.opanal.org/}} – official site, English and Spanish versions

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[[Category:Politics of the Caribbean]]
[[Category:Politics of Central America]]
[[Category:Anti–nuclear weapons movement]]
[[Category:Latin America and the Caribbean]]

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