The Carolina Foundation presented today at the Ateneo de Madrid its Annual Report 2024-2025, which on this occasion analyses the geopolitical challenges of the region and the future of its countries. The event was attended by the State Secretary for International Cooperation, Eva Granados Galiano, who stressed that "cooperation accompanies Latin America through a permanent and fluid institutional dialogue to promote all its potential, enabling the triple transition: a resilient social transition, a just ecological transition and a transformation for shared prosperity and inclusive growth".
Granados delved into the objectives shared by both regions: "the strengthening of democracy, as a political system that favours sustainable development; the promotion of greater social cohesion, supporting the fight against the effects of climate change, which is at the root of major population displacements; and support for regional integration processes and regional organisations as a way of achieving collective progress by countries on specific issues".
The report devotes special attention to the prospects for the international economic insertion of Latin American countries, the state of their democracies, their evolution in terms of feminist foreign policy, the challenges of environmental governance, social cohesion and migration, and the new security challenges that have diversified and expanded in recent years. The volume also reflects how the year 2025 could provide a new impetus in terms of financial resource mobilisation, institutional resilience, human rights defence or women's political representation for the countries of the region.
The report, entitled "América Latina en un mundo perplejo: inseguridad, turbulencias económicas y democracias asediadas (Latin America in a Perplexed World: Insecurity, Economic Turbulence and Democracies under Siege)", was prepared with the participation of renowned specialists from the Ibero-American world: Andrea Mila-Maldonado, Arlene B. Tickner, Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar, Carolina Sampó, Cecilia Güemes, Esther del Campo, Julieta Zelicovich, Sandra Miled, Hincapié Jiménez, Sofía Pérez Gil and Yanina Welp. The Director of the Carolina Foundation, Érika Rodríguez Pinzón, and Marisa Ramos, Professor of Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid, who also participated in the launch of the Report, have been in charge of its coordination.
About the Carolina Foundation
The Carolina Foundation, a body linked to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, is an institution for the promotion of cultural relations and cooperation between Spain and the countries of the Ibero-American Community of Nations, particularly in the fields of science, culture and higher education. By virtue of its public-private nature, its investment in human capital and research, and the relations it maintains with Ibero-American foreign ministries and academic institutions, the Carolina Foundation is a unique instrument of Spanish cooperation in favour of scientific progress, institutional strengthening and academic mobility to promote the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals.
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