Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
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English name | Community of Latin American and Caribbean States |
French name | Communauté des États Latino-Américains et Caribéens |
Spanish name | Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños |
Organization type | regional political cooperation |
Seat of the organs | Panama City |
Member States | 33 |
Official and working languages | |
surface | 20,413,300 km² |
population | 591,038,580 (2011) |
Population density | 29 inhabitants per km² |
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The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States ( Spanish Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños , CELAC ) is a regional association of Latin American and Caribbean countries. The community consists of all sovereign states of America except Canada and the United States and has a total population of over 550 million people and a total area of more than 20 million square kilometers.
Names
The official name of the community of Latin American and Caribbean countries in the five official languages of the member states is:
- Spanish : Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (56% of the area, 63% of the population)
- Portuguese : Comunidade de Estados Latino-Americanos e Caribenhos (42% of the area, 34% of the population)
- French : Communauté des États Latino-Américains et Caribéens (0.1% of the area, 1.6% of the population)
- English : Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (1.3% of the area, 1.1% of the population)
- Dutch : Gemeenschap van Latijns-Amerikaanse en Caraïbische Staten (0.8% of the area, 0.1% of the population)
history
CELAC was founded on February 23, 2010 as part of the 22nd Summit of the Rio Group and the 3rd Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean on Integration and Development (Cumbre de las Américas; CALC) in Playa del Carmen in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo decided. In contrast to the Organization of American States (OAS), the CELAC consists of all member states of the OAS except the USA and Canada . The desire for a new organization also grew out of the events surrounding the coup in Honduras in 2009 , when the US tried to influence the OAS in their favor. The CELAC is thus seen as an alternative to the OAS, which was initiated by the USA in 1948 in order to prevent potential Soviet influence in the region. On January 28, 2013, it was decided to include another member in the leadership troika of CELAC with the temporary presidency of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). In 2013, Haiti holds the CARICOM presidency.
Founding summit 2011 in Caracas
The founding meeting of CELAC was originally supposed to take place in summer 2011, but was postponed to December 2nd and 3rd, 2011 in Caracas , Venezuela due to cancer of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez at the time . Formally, CELAC is thus the successor to the Rio group founded in 1987 .
33 heads of state or government attended the summit and adopted an action plan for 2012 and 18 communiqués. With the Declaration of Caracas , CELAC is supposed to promote the political, economic, social and cultural integration process.
More peaks
- 2nd summit on 28/29 January 2014 in Havana , Cuba
- 3rd summit 28/29 January 2015 in San José , Costa Rica
- 4th summit meeting 26./27. January 2016 in Quito , Ecuador
- 5th summit meeting 24./25. January 2017 in Punta Cana , Dominican Republic
organs
- Summit of the heads of state and government
- Temporary presidency
- Conference of Foreign Ministers
- Conference of National Coordinators
- Special gatherings
- Leadership troika, from 2013: Extended leadership troika
- The establishment of a general secretariat and a CELAC parliament is planned
Presidency
The CELAC presidency is assumed by the host country for one year at a time and coordinates with its next two successors in a troika.
country | Period | |
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1. | Venezuela | 2-3 December 2011 |
2. | Chile | December 4, 2011–27. January 2013 |
3. | Cuba | January 28, 2013–27. January 2014 |
4th | Costa Rica | since January 28, 2014 |
5. | Ecuador | from the end of January 2015 |
6th | Dominican Republic | from the end of January 2016 |
7th | El Salvador | from the end of January 2017 |
aims
- Pushing back colonialism
- Curb US influence in the region
- Reducing social inequalities
- Strengthening South-South cooperation
- Greater say in international issues
Members
Country | population | Land area | Ocean surface | Official language | Capital |
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Antigua and Barbuda | 87,883 | 443 km² | 114,217 km² | English | Saint John |
Argentina | 40.091.359 | 2,780,400 km² | 2,015,409 km² | Spanish | Buenos Aires |
Bahamas | 301,790 | 13,940 km² | 761,038 km² | English | Nassau |
Barbados | 279.912 | 431 km² | 187,324 km² | English | Bridgetown |
Belize | 372,000 | 22,966 km² | 48,529 km² | English | Belmopan |
Bolivia | 10,426,160 | 1,098,581 km² | 0 km² | Spanish | Sucre and La Paz |
Brazil | 202,740,000 | 8,514,877 km² | 4,435,518 km² | Portuguese | Brasília |
Chile | 17.094.275 | 756,096.3 km² | 3,928,226 km² | Spanish | Santiago de Chile |
Costa Rica | 4,579,000 | 51,100 km² | 594,310 km² | Spanish | San Jose |
Dominica | 69,278 | 754 km² | 29,644 km² | English | Roseau |
Dominican Republic | 10,090,000 | 48,442 km² | 266,636 km² | Spanish | Santo Domingo |
Ecuador | 14,306,876 | 283,561 km² | 1,118,265 km² | Spanish | Quito |
El Salvador | 5,744,113 | 21,041 km² | 107,814 km² | Spanish | San Salvador |
Grenada | 89.502 | 344 km² | 29,663 km² | English | St. George's |
Guatemala | 14,700,000 | 108,889 km² | 128,592 km² | Spanish | Guatemala City |
Guyana | 759,000 | 214,970 km² | 188,343 km² | English | Georgetown |
Haiti | 9,800,000 | 27,750 km² | 133,443 km² | French | Port-au-Prince |
Honduras | 7,793,000 | 112,492 km² | 318,260 km² | Spanish | Tegucigalpa |
Jamaica | 2,735,520 | 10,991 km² | 267,939 km² | English | Kingston |
Colombia | 45,656,937 | 1,141,748 km² | 861,849 km² | Spanish | Bogotá |
Cuba | 11,242,621 | 110,860 km² | 412,276 km² | Spanish | Havana |
Mexico | 112,322,757 | 1,972,550 km² | 3,596,695 km² | Spanish | Mexico city |
Nicaragua | 5,465,100 | 129,494 km² | 194,755 km² | Spanish | Managua |
Panama | 3,405,813 | 78,200 km² | 389,050 km² | Spanish | Panama City |
Paraguay | 7,030,917 | 406,752 km² | 0 km² | Spanish | Asunción |
Peru | 29,885,340 | 1,285,215.6 km² | 897,915 km² | Spanish | Lima |
St. Lucia | 160.145 | 616 km² | 16,161 km² | English | Castries |
St. Kitts and Nevis | 38,950 | 261 km² | 10,627 km² | English | Basseterre |
St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 104,000 | 389 km² | 37,863 km² | English | Kingstown |
Suriname | 526,000 | 163,270 km² | 181,403 km² | Dutch | Paramaribo |
Trinidad and Tobago | 1,299,953 | 5,128 km² | 99,483 km² | English | Port of Spain |
Uruguay | 3,424,595 | 176,215 km² | 217,493 km² | Spanish | Montevideo |
Venezuela | 30.102.382 | 916,445 km² | 1,328,716 km² | Spanish | Caracas |
Twelve countries are in South America, which make up 87% of the area and 68% of the population.
Transcontinental meetings and collaboration
CELAC-EU summit
The EU-Latin America summit, which has taken place every two years since 1999, will be continued as the CELAC-EU summit after CELAC was constituted:
- 1st CELAC-EU Summit = VII. EU-Latin America Summit, on January 26th and 27th, 2013 in Santiago de Chile
- 2nd CELAC-EU Summit = 8th EU-Latin America Summit, on May 10th and 11th, 2015 in Brussels
Corresponding meetings were held at foreign ministerial level in 2016 and 2018.
CELAC-China Summit
Under the motto "New platform, new starting point and new opportunity - Together for a comprehensive cooperative partnership between China, Latin America and the Caribbean" took place on 8./9. January 2015 a joint summit of all 33 countries and the PR China took place in Beijing . China will therefore invest around US $ 250 billion in Central and South America and the Caribbean in the coming decade, which should double the mutual trade volume to half a trillion US dollars. If the Chinese investments in the partner region, as promised by Xi Jinping , are implemented, China alone will in future grant more loans in the region than the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank together. A cooperation plan is currently being drawn up; if realized, the current pattern of trade will change so that fewer raw materials are shipped to China and more processed products are shipped instead. In return, China will invest in the infrastructure in South and Central America.
See also
- List of member states of American organizations
- List of supranational and intergovernmental alliances
Web links
- The EU's relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (European External Action Service)
- Berliner Umschau: Documentation: Final declaration of the CELAC summit in Caracas ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
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^ Presidents Agree to Create Community of Latin American and Caribbean States ( Memento of April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Mexidata , March 1, 2010;
http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2010/02/23/paso-historico-acuerdan-crear-la-comunidad-de-estados-latinoamericanos-y-caribenos/#.XsbEn8bgrys - ^ Mark Weisbrot : What Manuel Zelaya's return means for Honduras , The Guardian , May 28, 2011.
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↑ Mexico Gives Birth to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States , MercoPress , February 24, 2010;
Ginger Thompson, Alexei Barrionuevo: Quake Overshadows Clinton Tour of Region , New York Times , February 28, 2010;
Cancilleres del Grupo de Río avanzaron en idea de crear nueva instancia regional ( Memento of February 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Granma , February 21, 2010. - ^ Presidentes constituyen la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños ( Memento of March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), EFE , February 23, 2010.
- ^ Founding summit of CELAC in Caracas: America Alliance without the USA and Canada ( Memento from December 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, December 3, 2011 (accessed on December 3, 2011).
- ↑ Latin America and Caribbean Summit started in Havana , accessed June 10, 2015.
- ↑ Agenda de la III Cumbre de jefes de estado y de gobierno de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños ( Memento of June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 10, 2015.
- ↑ Cancilleres de Costa Rica y Ecuador preparan traspaso de la Presidencia Pro Tempore de la CELAC ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 10, 2015.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ United without Washington at jungewelt.de, December 3, 2011 (accessed December 3, 2011).