• » September

The Grupo Vidanta Foundation and the institutions participating in the Bicentennial Project came to an agreement with Editorial Taurus for the printing of the eight books that will be the outcome of this project. The books will be published in June 2010.
The call for submissions for the Grupo Vidanta Foundation Prize: “Contributions to the Reduction of Poverty and Inequality in Latin America” opened on September 28 and was published in the following Latin America and Caribbean print media:

  • "Clarín", Argentina
  • "Amandala", Belice
  • "El Deber", Bolivia
  • "Folha de Sao Pablo", Brasil
  • "The Nation", Barbados
  • "El Mercurio", Chile
  • "El Tiempo", Colombia
  • "El Comercio", Ecuador
  • "EL Diario de Hoy", El Salvador
  • "Prensa Libre", Guatemala
  • "La Prensa", Honduras
  • "Prensa Libre", Guatemala
  • "Reforma", "El Universal", "Milenio", "Excelsior" y "La Jornada", México
  • "La Prensa", Nicaragua
  • "La Prensa", Panamá
  • "ABC Color", Paraguay
  • "El Comercio", Perú
  • "Listin Diario", República Dominicana
  • "El País", Uruguay
  • "Daily Express", Trinidad
  • "El Nacional", Venezuela


The prizes will be in United States dollars:
First prize: US$ 100,000.00 (one hundred thousand dollars)
Second prize: US$ 75,000.00 (seventy five thousand dollars)
Third prize: (fifty thousand dollars)

The three prizes will be awarded for the first time in Mexico City in October 2010. The closing date for reception of entries will be April 30, 2010.
  • » August

The first International Seminar on the Project “The Bicentennial: Lessons and Opportunities, 1910-2010,” was held on August 24 and 25, 2009, in Santiago, Chile, at the Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo. The event was organized jointly by the Carolina, Democracia y Desarrollo and Grupo Vidanta Foundations.

  • » June

On May 13, 2009, the Grupo Vidanta Foundation presented its latest book edited by Ricardo Lagos: América Latina: ¿integración o fragmentación? (Edhasa, Buenos Aires, 2008), in Buenos Aires. Roberto Russell, President of the Grupo Vidanta Foundation, described the development of the project that formed the basis for the book, and subsequently, Monica Hirst, professor of International Relations at the Torcuato Di Tella University; Luis Maira, Chilean Ambassador to Argentina; Raúl Ricardes, General Coordinator of Multinational Affairs of the Argentine Foreign Office, and Gustavo Sierra, Clarín newspaper International Journalist and Analyst, commented on the book.

  • » March
On January 13, 2009, the Grupo Vidanta Foundation signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement with the Fundación Carolina, designed to regulate legal aspects and the execution of activities of mutual interest related to their respective programs.

Additionally, the Fundación Carolina, Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo, Fundación Real Instituto Elcano and the Grupo Vidanta Foundation signed a Specific Cooperation Agreement on the subject of the Bicentennial in Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Mexico.

The English version of the book La brecha entre América Latina y Estados Unidos. Determinantes políticos e institucionales del desarrollo económico was published by Oxford University Press. The book was edited by Francis Fukuyama under the title Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap between the United States and Latin America.

In August 2008, the Grupo Vidanta Foundation’s second book: América Latina: ¿integración o fragmentación? (Edhasa, Buenos Aires) edited by Ricardo Lagos was published. The book was produced within the framework of a cooperation project between the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Grupo Vidanta Foundation, and was sponsored by Grupo Vidanta. The primary objective of the project was to provide a preeminent study of Latin America’s position in the international system, the main opportunities and challenges the world order of the first decades of the 21st century poses to the region and the status of and trends in intraregional relations.

On April 18 the first Workshop of the “The Bicentennial: Lessons and Opportunities, 1910-2010” project was held in Santiago, Chile, at the headquarters of the Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo. In the course of the workshop the national chapter teams which will prepare the papers were established, and the working methodology was unified.

  • » April
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