Latin America and the Caribbean Summit

Cumbre de América Latina y del Caribe - CALC

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• Overview

See also:

• International Organizations
• Organization of American States - OAS
• Rio Group
• South American Union - UNASUR
• Summits of the Americas / Cumbre de las Américas

Overview

Cumbre de América Latina y del Caribe  (Spanish)

The CALC is a series of summits (the first one being held in Rio do Janeiro, Brasil in 1999) to foster Latin American integration and also to have a FTA (Free Trade Area) with the EU in 2010 (speceific goal of the IV summit held in Vienna, Austria in 2006), which has not been achieved yet. However a Foundation was set up, the EU-LAC Foundation (European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean Foundation) (official website: http://eulacfoundation.org/ ) as a tool to promote bi-regional association. Since the establishment of the CELAC, the summits known as EU-LAC will now be called EU-CELAC Summit.
Sources: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALC_UE , http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundaci%C3%B3n_EU-LAC
Esteban Rivera, 15 April 2012