President pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States

Presidency pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
Incumbent Gustavo Petro since 9 April 2025
Constituting instrument	Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
Inaugural holder	Sebastián Piñera
Formation	3 February 2011;14 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]	1 March 2024
13	Honduras		Xiomara Castro		Libre	1 March 2024 [16]	9 April 2025
14	Colombia		Gustavo Petro		Humane Colombia	9 April 2025 [17]	incumbent

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

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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.
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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.
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9. "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.
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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.
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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.
16. "Xiomara Castro asume la Presidencia Pro Témpore de la CELAC". Gobierno de Honduras: Secretaría de Transparencia y Lucha Contra la Corrupción. 1 March 2024. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
17. "Gustavo Petro recibe presidencia pro tempore de la Celac y propone una integración como la Unión Europea". El Tiempo. 9 April 2025. Retrieved 10 April 2025.