Center for Opening and Development of Latin America

The Center for Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL), "with its main office in Buenos Aires and an office in Montevideo, is a non-profit, non-partisan NGO, created in Argentina on February 2003. It's founding members and officers share a Liberal-Democratic vision. They have had prior participation in other NGOs as well as in journalistic and Human Rights activities linked with the study of Latin American Politics.

"The creation of CADAL took into account the several political, institutional and economical crises in Latin America and their regional impact, as well as the perception that there could be future setbacks in terms of civil and economic liberties. In this sense, it was taken into account that in general the NGOs that promote Human Rights and press freedom, tend to provide a harsh view regarding market policies; and, on the other hand, the institutions that promote free-market public policies have no good history regarding the defence of fundamental democratic liberties. In this manner, CADAL emerged to occupy that place in Latin America, the place of simultaneously promoting political democracies and free-markets." 

"CADAL is member of Red Interamericana para la Democracia (Inter-American Network for Democracy) and Network of Democracy Research Institutes. For its work, CADAL has received two international awards: "2005 Templeton Freedom Award Grant for Institute Excellence" and "2005 Francisco De Vitoria Prize for Ethics and Values"." 

Board and Staff
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 * Chairman and General Director: Gabriel Salvia
 * Secretary: Maria Reviriego
 * Treasurer: Emilce Grimi
 * Programs Director: Hernan Alberro
 * Chief Accountant: Marisa Divitto
 * Webmaster: Sergio Casais
 * Programs Coordinator: María Belen Oliveros
 * Institutional Relations Coordinator in Chile: Daniella Ramírez
 * Research Assistant: Adrian Lucardi
 * Institutional Relations Assistant in Uruguay: Sofia Rodriguez
 * Journalistic Production “Apertura Latinoamericana”: Florencia Guidobono
 * ProCubaLibre Project in Uruguay: Soledad Murgan
 * Institutional Relations in Tucumán: Natalia Valdez
 * Institutional Relations Assistant in Paraguay: Laura Pampliega

Associated Researchers
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 * Noel Alonso Murray - Transparencia
 * Fredo Arias - (Transitions in Eastern Europe )
 * Fabián Calle - (Hemispheric Security)
 * Matías Franchini - Política Latinoamericana
 * Roberto Iglesias - (Public Communications)
 * Mariel Julio - (Foreign Policy and Human Rights)
 * Ricardo López Göttig - (History of Political Ideas)
 * Mercedes Llano - (Modernization of Political Parties)
 * Constanza Mazzina - (Electoral Processes)
 * Kezia McKeague - (Argentine-Cuban relations)
 * Rogelio Núñez - Relaciones entre España y América Latina
 * Fernando J. Ruiz - (Journalism and Democracy)
 * Ángel Soto - Historia y Política Latinoamericana.

Academic Council
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 * Boris Begovic - CLDS, Serbia
 * Carlos Gervasoni - University of Notre Dame, USA
 * Isidoro Hodara - ORT University, Uruguay
 * Marcelo Loprete - Austral University, Argentina
 * Jorge Marshall - Expansiva, Chile
 * Alejandro Mercado - Universidad Católica Boliviana
 * Mauricio Rojas - Timbro Institute, Sweden
 * Eduardo Viola - Brasilia University, Brazil

Main Counterparts
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 * Atlas Economic Research Foundation (United States);
 * Cámara Nacional de Comercio y Servicios (Uruguay)
 * Political Science Collage at Universidad de Belgrano (Argentina);
 * CIMAS - Centro de Investigación en Medios y Sociedad Andes. (Chile);
 * Cuban Democratic Directorate ( United States ) (United States);
 * Communications Collage at Universidad Austral (Argentina);
 * Fundación Friedrich von Hayek (Argentina);
 * Instituto de Ciencia Política (Colombia);
 * Instituto de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Católica Argentina (Argentina);
 * Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Argentine Office);
 * Timbro (Sweden);

Contact

 * Web: http://www.cadal.org/english/default.asp