21 Members (excluding the associate or suspended members but including the countries represented on their behalf) [The rulers are not necessarily the representatives in the organisation. ] :
 |  | ARGENTINE | (Buenos Aires a + Olivos r) |  | President Carlos Menem |  | |
 |  | BOLIVIA | (Sucre cj + La Paz eir) |  | President Hugo Banzer | | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Brasilia) |  | President Fernando Henrique Cardoso | | |
 |  | CHILE | (Santiago of Chile a + Valparaiso l + Vina del Mar s) |  | President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle | | |
 |  | COLOMBIA | (Santafe of Bogota) |  | President Andres Pastrana | | |
 |  | COSTA RICA | (San Jose) |  | President Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverria |  | |
 |  | CUBA | (Havana) |  | Supreme Leader Fidel Castro | | |
 |  | DOMINICAN | (Santo Domingo de Guzman) |  | President Leonel Fernandez Reyna | | |
 |  | ECUADOR | (San Francisco of Quito) |  | President Jamil Mahuad | | |
 |  | GUATEMALA | (Guatemala City) |  | President Alvaro Arzu Irigoyen | | |
 |  | HONDURAS | (Tegucigalpa a + Comayaguela c) |  | President Carlos Flores Facusse | | |
 |  | HAITI | (Port Au Prince) |  | President Rene Preval | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi |  | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon | | |
 |  | NICARAGUA | (Managua) |  | President Arnoldo Aleman | | |
 |  | PANAMA | (Panama City) |  | President Ernesto Perez Balladares | | |
 |  | PERU | (Lima a + Arequipa d + Cusco h) |  | President Alberto Fujimori | | |
 |  | PARAGUAY | (Assumption) |  | President Luis Angel Gonzalez Macchi | | |
 |  | EL SALVADOR | (San Salvador) |  | President Francisco Flores | | |
 |  | URUGUAY | (Montevideo) |  | President Julio Maria Sanguinetti Coirolo | | |
 |  | VENEZUELA | (Caracas) |  | President Hugo Chavez | | |
