Presidency pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
Incumbent
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves
since 24 January 2023
Constituting instrumentCommunity of Latin American and Caribbean States
Inaugural holderChile Sebastián Piñera
Formation3 February 2011; 12 years ago (2011-02-03)

The Presidency pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States is the office that represents the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in international events.

List of pro tempore presidents

# Country Portrait President Symbol Party Term start Term end
1  Chile Sebastián Piñera National Renewal 3 December 2011[1] 28 January 2013
2  Cuba Raúl Castro Communist Party of Cuba 28 January 2013[2] 29 January 2014
3  Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla National Liberation Party 29 January 2014[3] 8 May 2014
4 Luis Guillermo Solís Citizens' Action Party 8 May 2014[4] 29 January 2015
5  Ecuador Rafael Correa PAIS Alliance 29 January 2015[5] 27 January 2016
6  Dominican Republic Danilo Medina Dominican Liberation Party 27 January 2016[6] 25 January 2017
7  El Salvador Salvador Sánchez Cerén Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 25 January 2017[7] 14 January 2019
8  Bolivia Evo Morales Movement for Socialism 14 January 2019[8] 10 November 2019[9]
9 Jeanine Áñez Social Democratic Movement 12 November 2019 8 January 2020[a]
10  Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador National Regeneration Movement 8 January 2020[11][12] 7 January 2022
11  Argentina Alberto Fernández Justicialist Party 7 January 2022[13][14] 24 January 2023
12  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves Unity Labour Party 24 January 2023[15] present

Notes

  1. ^ Pro tempore presidency is assigned to countries and it automatically passes to the next president after elections. After the 2019 Bolivian political crisis, Jeanine Áñez would become pro tempore president of CELAC. However, Mexico called for a new CELAC summit on its own. Jeanine Áñez denounced that the summit should be called for by Bolivia. As the result of this dispute, Jeanine Áñez did not attend to the CELAC summit and did not formally pass the pro tempore presidency.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ "Chile asume la primera presidencia de la CELAC". Archived from the original on 13 December 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Raúl Castro: "Para Cuba y para mí es un gran honor asumir hoy la Presidencia Pro Tempore de la CELAC" (+Video)". Cubadebate (in Spanish). 28 January 2013. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Asume Costa Rica presidencia pro-témpore de Celac". People's Daily Online (in Spanish). Xinhua. 29 January 2014. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  4. ^ Andrea Rodríguez V (28 January 2015). "Luis Guillermo Solís alabó papel de Costa Rica durante presidencia de Celac". El Financiero, Grupo Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Termina III Cumbre de Celac con discurso de Rafael Correa a favor de 'descolonización'". El Comercio (in Spanish). EFE. 29 January 2015. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  6. ^ "República Dominicana asume Presidencia Pro Témpore de la CELAC". Xinhua (in Spanish). 27 January 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Asume El Salvador presidencia pro témpore de la Celac". Granma (in Spanish). 25 January 2017. Archived from the original on 16 December 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Bolivia recibe presidencia Pro Témpore de la CELAC". El País Tarija (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  9. ^ a b "Bolivia no asistirá al cambio de presidencia de la Celac por roces con México". El Imparcial. 23 December 2019. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  10. ^ Serna Duque, Santıago (24 December 2020). "Bolivia rechaza que México convocara a reunión de la Celac sin consultarle previamente". Anadolu Agency (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 May 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  11. ^ Exteriores, Secretaría de Relaciones. "Mexico Is Elected President Pro Tempore of CELAC for 2020". gob.mx (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  12. ^ "La Secretaria General Iberoamericana participa en el establecimiento de México como presidencia pro tempore de CELAC". SEGIB (in Spanish). 13 January 2020. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  13. ^ Rosemberg, Jaime; Lacour, Pedro (7 January 2022). "El presidente Alberto Fernández asumió la presidencia de la Celac, con el acompañamiento de Nicaragua". La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  14. ^ "El presidente argentino aboga por una Celac de "consenso" y sin "exclusiones"". EFE (in Spanish). 7 January 2022. Archived from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  15. ^ "St Vincent and the Grenadines becomes first CARICOM nation to lead CELAC". SEARCHLIGHT. 25 January 2023. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
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