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Institutionals
:: July 19, 2010
Andres Canizalez of Venezuela Awarded Titus Brandsma Award 2010
More than 1900 entries and candidates were submitted for 8 categories of awards. The jury members highly appreciated the quality of award entries and candidates. The prestigious Titus Brandsma Award will be conferred upon Professor Canzalez at the UCIP World Congress to be held at Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 12 to 19 September 2010. Andrés Cañizalez is journalist and university professor in Venezuela. He is member of the Academic Council of CADAL, and participated in different events in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
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:: June 7, 2010
Claim for recognition of Cuban Civic Movement at OAS
The head of the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL), Gabriel Salvia, claimed to the foreign ministers gathered in Lima also to lift the "implict suspension that the majority of the Hemispheric states hold towards the human rights supporters in Cuba and thus comply with article 1 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
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 :: June 5, 2010
Members of Red Puente Democrático Latinoamericano met in Lima
The participants of the two meetings of the Network were:Heinz Sonntag (Observatorio Hannah Arendt, Venezuela), Jorge Maldonado (Corporación Justicia y Democracia, Chile), Paulo Uebel (Instituto Millenium, Brazil), Jorge Villena (Instituto Peruano de la Economía Social de Mercado, Peru) and Gabriel Salvia and Hernán Alberro (CADAL, Argentina).
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:: May 10, 2010
2010 Award to Democratic Opening in Cuba
In its first edition, Red Puente Democratico Latinoamericano appointed its member institute in Chile, Corporación Justicia y Democracia, to form a jury to give this award. In this sense, the jury formed by Patricio Aylwin, Soledad Alvear, Lourdes Flores and Patricio Walker decided to give the 2010 Award to Democratic Opening in Cuba to "Varela Project".
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 :: May 4, 2010
CADAL sponsors a seminar of reflection on bicentenary
The Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL), with Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires and Universidad del Cema sponsored the seminar “Argentina, year of the Bicentenary, long term policies and challenges” organized by Fundación Cívico Republicana and Centro de Estudios Civilitas.
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:: April 28, 2010
CADAL is registered in the OAS
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) aproved approved in its session of April 28, 2010, the request by the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) of becoming a registered civil society organization before OAS, following the rules adopted by resolution CP/RES 759 for that purpose.
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 :: April 19, 2010
From entrepreneur to businessman
The 23rd edition of Perspectiva magazine is already available with a dossier entitled "From entrepreneur to businessman". Perspectiva called different specialists on the subject to analyze the situation in the region, theyr are: Roberto Villacreses León, analyst and associated researcher of Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economía Política; Jorge Ospina Sardi, editor of LaNota.com from Colombia; José Manuel Restrepo Abondano, dean of Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración (Cesa) from Colombia; Daniel Córdova, executive director of Instituto Invertir from Perú, among others.
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:: April 16, 2010
CADAL on Facebook
In the search of reaching a bigger audience and adding new channels of communication and promotion, the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) launched its Facebook page, the biggest social network in the world. http://www.facebook.com/cadal.org
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:: March 18, 2010
Unprecedented claim on human rights in Cuba
At CADAL we are convinced that the permanence of a dictatorship in Cuba, without firm claims of political opening, set a democratic limit to Latin America; and we also consider that this claim has to be led by people with a long history in the defense of democracy and human rights.
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:: March 3, 2010
SCOs claims to UN High Commissioner
CADAL's head signed with other SCOs managers a request for the UN High Commissioner, to claim the Cuban government to allow human rights activist Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina to travel to attend to the 2nd Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy in Geneva.
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 :: February 23, 2010
Indignation for the death of Cuban prisoner of concience Orlando Zapata Tamayo
The Cuban prisoner of concience, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, recognized by Amnesty International, died today after a long hunger strike of more than 80 days. This wellknown activist of Cuban democratic oposition was unjustly enjailed since March 20, 2003, condemned to a long sentence for peacefully oposing the government.
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 :: February 4, 2010
CADAL takes part in a seminar in Panama
The seminar focused on the economic and political situation in Cuba, Cuban foreign policy and the Future of Cuba and the changes to be considered. Gabriel Salvia took part in the second panel, analyzing the foreign policy of the Cuban dictatorship in Latin America.
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 :: January 29, 2010
Latin American Democratic Bridge Network
The Network seeks to "become a regional Latin American referrent in the promotion of democratic principles and human rights established by the different instruments of the Inter-American System in the matter, influencing the public agenda in our countries and being recognized for its efficient support to reginoal integration, for the quality of its actions and the commitment of its members".
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:: December 21, 2009
New claim of acknowledgement of the civic movement in Cuba
The claim to the Foreign Departments of different Latin American countries carries the signature of the representatives of the civil societies organizations before the Red Puente Democratico Latino Cuba: Carlos Bascuñán, Corporación Justicia y Democracia – Chile; Héctor Leis, Instituto Millenium – Brazil; Lázaro Ramírez, Unión Colombiana de Jóvenes Demócratas (UCJD) – Colombia; César Ricaurte, Fundación Andina para la Observación y Estudio de Medios (Fundamedios) – Ecuador; Gabriel Salvia, Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina (CADAL) - Argentina/Uruguay; Heinz Sonntag, Observatorio Hannah Arendt – Venezuela; Eduardo Ulibarri Bilbao, Instituto de Prensa y Libertad de Expresión (IPLEX) - Costa Rica; y Jorge Villena, Instituto Peruano de Economía Social de Mercado (IPESM) – Peru.
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 :: December 16, 2009
Free Speech
The new edition of Perspectiva magazine includes a dossier dedicated to "freedom of speech" where different analysts refer to the situation in the region, among them: Carlos Lauría, Enrique Santos Calderón, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Andres Cañizález, Marc Watchtenheim, Fabián Corral, Víctor Maldonado, and Gabriel Salvia. Moreover, in the section of Latin America, Tomas Mandl, Visiting Scholar of the Center for International Private Enterprise (Cipe), explains what the crisis does not alter, and the research team of Instituto de Ciencia Política from Colombia analyze the electoral processes that will take place on 2010 and the remaining of 2009.
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