Co-chaired by former President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, and former President of Colombia, Iván Duque, the Commission will release its report on 4 August at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

The high-level international seminar will take place on Tuesday, April 21 at the organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

The organization’s Executive Secretary made an official visit to that country on March 4-5, during which he held meetings with senior government authorities and signed a cooperation agreement.

José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, participated in the presentation of the LEO 2025 report, held in the framework of the International Economic Forum Latin America and the Caribbean 2026.

José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, spoke at the International Economic Forum Latin America and the Caribbean 2026, organized by CAF and the government of Panama.

This joint document by the OECD, ECLAC, CAF and the European Commission – entitled the Latin American Economic Outlook (LEO 2025) – was presented at the Business Forum of the CELAC-EU Summit that is taking place in Santa Marta, Colombia.

Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs will offer a press conference at the Commission’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico.

José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the United Nations regional organization’s Executive Secretary, will give a press conference on Thursday, July 17.

All the main panels at the meeting will be broadcast live on June 17-18, 2025. The invitation, on social media, is to participate in the debates using hashtags #CooperaciónSurSur and #SouthSouthCooperation.

The platform, with ECLAC serving as Technical Secretariat, aims to foster dialogue, the exchange of good practices, cooperation, and the development of joint projects focused on productive transformation from the territorial level.

José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, spoke at the Latin America and the Caribbean International Economic Forum 2025, organized by CAF in Panama City.

In conjunction with authorities and experts from government, academia, the private sector and civil society in the provinces of Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Entre Ríos, the United Nations organization’s national office made headway on three technical studies that allow for expanding policy desig...

The “Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024” will be presented on Wednesday, December 18 at a press conference led by the United Nations organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs.

The President and founder of Enovating Lab will speak at the United Nations organisation’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile on 26 November.

On the second day of the United Nations regional commission’s most important biennial meeting – which is taking place in Lima, Peru – ministers from numerous countries in the region and prominent specialists debated how to achieve stronger and sustained growth and how to reduce inequality, among oth...

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte; the second highest authority of the United Nations Amina Mohammed; ECLAC's top official José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs; and a high-level representative from Argentina, will open the most important biennial meeting of this UN regional organization this Wednesday, Octo...

The 40th session of ECLAC will be transmitted via all of the institution’s platforms. Those interested can join the conversation using the hashtags #SESeclac2024 and #DevelopmentTraps.

The Fortieth Session, which is this UN regional commission’s most important biennial meeting, will take place in the capital, Lima, and will bring together representatives of ECLAC’s 46 Member States and its 14 associate members.

At a high-level seminar, specialists and academics from numerous countries debated about the first edition of the organization’s flagship publication “Panorama of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean 2024.”

This UN regional commission’s most important biennial meeting will take place in the capital, Lima, and will bring together representatives of ECLAC’s 46 Member States and its 14 associate members.