11 years after its foundation, IPDAL changes its image and now means “Institute for the Promotion of Latin America and the Caribbean”.

During meetings held at the General Assembly, Management and Advisory Council, the change to the name, corporate image and corporate purpose of the Institute was approved.

As a result of the change, the “Institute for the Promotion and Development of Latin America” was changed to the Institute for the Promotion of Latin America and the Caribbean, in order to continue to strengthen, in an even more ambitious, integrationist and comprehensive way, the ties already solid between IPDAL and the region.

As Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the areas in the world with the highest levels of economic growth and socio-political development, which shares with Portugal a historical, linguistic and cultural affinity, as well as a common identity, IPDAL will carry out even more activities to promote the region in Portugal, and vice versa, in the economic and business, institutional, academic and cultural spheres.

Part of the American continent, the Latin America and Caribbean region is made up of 33 countries, and IPDAL works daily with the Embassies of the 12 countries residing in Lisbon, with which it has an extremely close relationship, and which are its main interlocutors and recipients.

The 33 countries are: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico , Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.