LACNIC is the regional Internet registry for the Latin American and Caribbean regions.
The OPANAL is an international organization which promotes a non-aggression pact and nuclear disarmament in much of the Americas. In English, its name is the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The agency was created as a result of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, ratified in 1969, which forbids its signatory nations from use, storage, or transport of nuclear weapons.
ALBA or ALBA–TCP, formally the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America or the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples' Trade Treaty, is an intergovernmental organization based on the idea of the social, political and economic integration of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The name "Bolivarian" refers to the ideology of Simón Bolívar, the 19th-century South American independence leader born in Caracas who wanted Hispanic America to unite as a single "Great Nation".
Carlos Andrés Escudé Carvajal was an Argentine political scientist and author, who during the 1990s served as special advisor to foreign minister Guido di Tella. As such, he advised on Argentine foreign policy strategy vis-à-vis the Western powers particularly in the wake of the Falklands War.
Roberto Sierra is a Puerto Rican composer of contemporary classical music.
Mu-Kien Adriana Sang Ben is a historian, essayist, analyst, political scientist and academic from the Dominican Republic. Sang is Vice-Rector of the Madre y Maestra Pontifical Catholic University.
Julieta Montaño is a Bolivian attorney, human rights defender, woman's rights activist, feminist writer and a 2015 winner of the US State Department's International Women of Courage Award.
María Julieta Kirkwood Bañados was a Chilean sociologist, political scientist, university professor and feminist activist. She is considered one of the founders and impellers of the Chilean feminist movement in the 1980s. She is considered the forerunner of Gender studies in Chile.
Samuel Silva Gotay is a sociologist of religion of Puerto Rico and Latin America. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1935.
tatiana de la tierra was a Latina lesbian writer born in Colombia. She was the creator of the first international Latina lesbian magazine Esto no tiene nombre; the quarterly magazine was distributed in various parts of the United States and to many Latin American countries, including Colombia. Much of her writing was bilingual and bicultural featuring both the English and Spanish language and contained very sexual content. Through her work, de la tierra gave voice to LGBTQ people of color and inspired other writers to speak about sex and sexuality in an honest manner.
Hilda María Herzer was an Argentine sociologist, environmentalist and professor. She was a researcher with FLACSO, and visiting professor at Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
Tamara Sujú Roa is a Venezuelan criminal lawyer and human rights specialist.
Juan Alberto Fuentes Knight is a Guatemalan economist, politician, and non-profit official. Among other roles, he has served as Minister of Finance in Guatemala and as chairman of Oxfam International.
Erickson Fernández, known by the stage name Mozart La Para, is a Dominican rapper and singer who has had songs in the charts five times.
Roberto McCausland-Dieppa, also known as "Dieppa", is a Colombian pianist, composer, and conductor, specializing in classical, jazz and Hungarian music. "Dieppa" is the first Colombian born pianist to have performed successfully in world wide venues. "Dieppa" is the conductor of Sinfonia Latina. and helped start the Santa Fe-Barlovento Orchestra. His performances at various venues across the United States, Asia, Australia, and Europe, are noted such as Carnegie Hall, Ostrogskich-Chopin Hall, and the United Nations.
Sergia Galván Ortega is a Dominican feminist teacher, counselor and activist. She is known in the public sphere for her fight for women's rights.
Violeta Bermúdez Valdivia is a Peruvian lawyer, writer and diplomat. On 18 November 2020, Bermúdez became the Prime Minister of Peru. Previously, she held posts in the United States Agency for International Development and worked during the cabinets of President Alejandro Toledo and Prime Minister Beatriz Merino.
Lucía Abello is a Chilean librarian, naturalist and botanist. She has been in charge of exploring, researching, documenting and disseminating the native flora in her region and in her country, as well as its traditional uses through photography and bibliographic publications. She has also been in charge of promoting reading from the public library with a respect for the environment approach.
Entrelazados is a upcoming Argentinian comedy-drama streaming television series for children and adolescents, which is produced by Pampa Films and Gloriamundi Producciones for the Walt Disney Company. In Latin America and selected other countries and regions, the first season of the series is expected to be released on Disney+ on November 12, 2021.
Mirta Rodríguez Calderón is Cuban journalist based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She is known for her advocacy of feminist journalism and gender equality in media. She co-founded the International Network of Journalists With a Gender Perspective in 2005, and is a promoter of alliances among journalists in Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, with the aim of including gender-based approaches in social communication.
