Rio group

States of the Rio group

The Rio Group (Spanish: Grupo de Río , Portuguese: Grupo do Rio ) is a consultation mechanism of Latin American democracies founded at a conference of foreign ministers on December 18, 1986 in Rio de Janeiro , in which 24 states and CARICOM are now involved.

The Rio Group is of the Contadora Group ( Colombia , Mexico , Panama and Venezuela ) and the Contadora Support Group ( Argentina , Brazil , Peru and Uruguay emerged), which is peace in Central America sought. In addition to the founding members, Belize , Bolivia , Chile , Costa Rica , the Dominican Republic , Ecuador , El Salvador , Guatemala , Guyana , Haiti , Honduras , Jamaica , Cuba , Nicaragua , Paraguay and Suriname also belong to the Rio group.

Since 1987 there have also been regular meetings between representatives of the Rio Group and the European Union at ministerial level; the consultation was institutionalized with the 1990 Rome Agreement.

At the 21st meeting of the Rio Group in Cancún , Mexico , the formation of a new confederation (without the participation of the USA and Canada ) called Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) was agreed. The new community of states was founded in December 2011 in Caracas , Venezuela and is intended as a counterweight to the Organization of American States (OAS), which has been dominated by the USA up to now .

List of meetings of the Rio group

List of meetings of the Rio group

To meet	year	city	country
I.	1987	Acapulco	Mexico
II	1988	Montevideo	Uruguay
III	1989	Ica	Peru
IV	1990	Caracas	Venezuela
V	1991	Cartagena de Indias	Colombia
VI	1992	Buenos Aires	Argentina
VII	1993	Santiago de Chile	Chile
VIII	1994	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
IX	1995	Quito	Ecuador
X	1996	Cochabamba	Bolivia
XI	1997	Asunción	Paraguay
XII	1998	Ciudad de Panamá	Panama
XIII	1999	Veracruz	Mexico
XIV	2000	Cartagena de Indias	Colombia
XV	2001	Santiago de Chile	Chile
XVI	2002	San Jose	Costa Rica
XVII	2003	Cusco	Peru
XVIII	2004	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
XIX	2007	Georgetown	Guyana
XX	2008	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic
XXI	2009	Zacatecas	Mexico
XXII	2009	Managua	Nicaragua
XXIII	2010	Cancun	Mexico

See also

• Union of South American Nations
• Bolivarian alternative for America
• CELAC

Web links

• Database of cataloged literature on the social, political and economic situation in the Rio Group
• Information from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Rio Group (Spanish)
• Information on the EU-Latin America cooperation at Europa Digital

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1. ↑ G. Pope Atkins: Encyclopedia of the Inter-American System , page 313. ISBN 0-313-28600-0 (English), accessed December 17, 2011
2. ^ Presidents Agree to Create Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. (No longer available online.) In: Mexidata. March 1, 2010, archived from the original on April 26, 2012 ; accessed on December 28, 2011 . 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.  
3. ↑ Modaira Rubio: New model. In: young world. December 5, 2011, accessed December 28, 2011 .