The Diplomat
The United States ambassador in Madrid, Julissa Reynoso, assured yesterday that her country and Spain “have a shared interest in promoting growth and development in Latin America.”
During a meeting with business partners of the Business Council Alliance for Ibero-America (CEAPI), Julissa Reynoso stressed that to make this objective a reality “we have to do it together: governments, the private sector and civil society.”
The ambassador thanked the leadership of Spain and Spanish companies in the US initiatives Blue Dot Network and Central America Forward, which seek investments in quality infrastructure to promote the development of Central America.
Reynoso encouraged companies in our country that are not yet aware of these initiatives to join them to promote economic development in the region.
For her part, the president of CEAPI, Núria Vilanova, recalled the Latin origin of the ambassador, born in the Dominican Republic, and stated that “Spanish companies began investing in Latin America forty years ago and then they learned to be global.”
“They understood what it means to be multinational and today, thanks to having their base in Spain and Latin America, they are facing other markets such as the United States and Canada,” added Vilanova, who also highlighted the virtuous triangle” that Latin America forms with Europe and the United States and the bridge that Spain represents to project Latin America in the European and American markets.
He also pointed out that it is now a way back “because with the geostrategic changes that influence the global economy, the world realizes that it needs Latin America, its natural resources, its green energy, its minerals and its young people”.
The VII Ibero-American CEAPI Congress for presidents of Companies and Business Families will take place from June 17 to 19 in Cartagena (Colombia), with about five hundred guests from companies with investments on both sides of the Atlantic.
