december 02 2012
The Latin American Council for International Relations has officially been formed.
Presided over by the former President of Chile, Ricardo Lagos, it is comprised of the former President of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo, the former President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez, the former Minister of Foreign Relations and Education of Colombia and Secretary General of UNASUR Maria Emma Mejia, and the External Affairs Advisor to the President of Brazil, Marco Aurelio Garcia. They are joined by Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the OAS, Enrique Garcia, President of CAF (the Latin American Development Bank), Heraldo Muñoz, Assistant Secretary General of the UN and Regional Director of the UNDP, and Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank. The academic section of the Council is comprised of: Adriáan Bonilla (Ecuador), Sandra Borda (Colombia), Cristina Eguizabal (Costa Rica), Guadalupe Gonzalez (Mexico), Rafael Hernandez (Cuba), Luis Maira (Chile), Ana Maria Sanjuan (Venezuela), Maria Regina Soares de Lima (Brazil) and Juan Gabriel Tokatlian (Argentina). The general coordinators of the project are the former Foreign Relations Minister of Chile, Juan Gabriel Valdes, and the President of the Vidanta Foundation, Roberto Russell.
