Latin American Integration Association
The Latin American Integration Association ( Spanish Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración , Portuguese Associação Latino-Americana de Integração , ALADI) is an organization of several Latin American countries for economic cooperation and creation of a common market. The organization is based in Montevideo in the Barrio Palermo there on Calle Cebollatí 1461 .
history
The organization was founded in 1980 and through the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980 , which came into force on March 18, 1981, ALADI became the legal successor to the Latin American Free Trade Area (ALALC or LAFTA) established with the Treaty of Montevideo on February 18, 1960 .
Member States
The organization has 13 member states.
On August 11, 2011, in the course of the 16th meeting of the Council of Ministers, Nicaragua's accession was accepted in principle and on March 21, 2012 it was announced as the 14th member state.
aims
- Promote trade to create a common market
- regional tariff preferences
- Market opening for member states without the principle of reciprocity
- multilateral association models
General Secretaries
- 1980–1984 Julio César Schupp (Paraguay)
- 1984–1987 Juan José Real (Uruguay)
- 1987–1990 Norberto Bertaina (Argentina)
- 1990–1993 Jorge Luis Ordóñez (Colombia)
- 1993–1999 Antônio José de Cerqueira Antunes (Brazil)
- 2000-2005 Juan Francisco Rojas Penso (Venezuela)
- 2005-2008 Didier Opertti (Uruguay)
- 2008–2009 Bernardino Hugo Saguier-Caballero (Paraguay)
- 2009–2011 José Félix Fernández Estigarribia (Paraguay)
- 2011–2017 Carlos Álvarez (Argentina)
- 2017– Alejandro de la Peña Navarrete (Mexico)
Web links
- Official website (English, Spanish, Portuguese)
- Treaty of Asunción
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member States ( Memento of the original dated February 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish)
- ↑ Member States ( Memento of the original dated February 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Retrieved April 4, 2014
- ↑ Nicaragua se incorpora a la ALADI ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) from www.aladi.org from March 21, 2012, accessed April 4, 2014
