It is a regional intergovernmental organization that brings together the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, without the interference of the United States and Canada.
CELAC was born from the union of two important meeting places in Latin America, the Grupo de Rio and the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development (CALC) or better known as Summit of the Unit.
It was constituted on February 23, 2010, on the occasion of the Summit of the Latin American and Caribbean Unity in Rivera Maya, Mexico, and put into operation on December 3, 2011 during the Caracas Summit, within the framework of the Third Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean on Integration and Development (CALC) and the XXII Summit of the Permanent Mechanism of Consultation and Political Agreement.
In this way, a forum that groups together the 33 sovereign States of the region and seeks to deepen the political, economic, social and cultural integration of Latin America and the Caribbean, based on full respect for democracy and rights humans was established.
The protempore president of the organization is currently exercised by the Republic of Ecuador, in the figure of its president Rafael Correa.
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