The Institute for the Promotion and Development of Latin America presented the IPDAL – Vista Alegre Prize to the Ambassador of Peru, Nestor Popolizio. The tribute took place at the Grémio Literário Library, in Lisbon, and was attended by several Ambassadors and Diplomats, Businessmen, Politicians , Friends and Members of IPDAL.

Ambassador Nestor Popolizio headed the Peruvian Diplomatic Mission in Portugal for the last year and a half, now heading to Bogotá, Colombia, where he will once again serve as Ambassador.

In a brief intervention, the President of IPDAL praised the role of Ambassador Nestor Popolizio as a diplomat and Friend, highlighting the visit of the President of the Portuguese Republic to Peru and that of President Ollanta Humala to Portugal.

Ambassador Nestor Popolizio considered the role that IPDAL plays in relations between Portugal and Latin America to be decisive, guaranteeing that the Institute is a platform of great importance for Latin American embassies in Portugal and that it even contributes in an exemplary way to a greater rapprochement between the Ambassadors themselves.

The IPDAL – Vista Alegre Award serves to distinguish the entities and personalities who, in a more notable way, promoted Latin America and supported IPDAL in the development of its activities, but also the Latin American Ambassadors who stood out most in the work of bringing together their countries to Portugal. The award has already been given to Ambassador Jorge Faurie, Ambassador Ana Silvia Reinoso, Ambassador Antonio Rivas Palacios; to the Ibero-American Secretary General, D. Enrique Iglesias, to the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luís Amado, to Engineer Fernando Santo, then President of the Order of Engineers and current Secretary of State of the Portuguese Government, to Ambassador António de Almeida Ribeiro, at height Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; to Dr. Basílio Horta, at the time President of AICEP; to Caixa Geral de Depósitos; to Camões, Institute of Language and Cooperation; to the Real Instituto Elcano, among others.