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On Thursday 13 February the inaugural Canning House Latin American Academic Forum was held in London. The forum was chaired by Laurence Whitehead and featured presentations of recent work from Latin American academia. This space provided an opportunity for Latin Americanists from across academic disciplines to connect and share learnings and work with each other.

On the morning of 11 February, Canning House welcomed the Minister for Trade Policy and Economic Security, the Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP, for a Business Breakfast. This provided our corporate members and network with an opportunity to speak directly to the Minister regarding trading relations with Latin America.

On Thursday 6 February, Canning House hosted a roundtable with Professor Anand Menon that provided an audit of the current state of the United Kingdom. Professor Menon is a foreign policy academic at King's College London and the Director of the academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE).

Canning House is saddened to hear of the passing of Giles Paxman, former British Ambassador to Mexico and Spain, and trustee of Canning House. Our thoughts and best wishes are with his family.

Canning House was delighted to kick of its Women's Day Series with a book launch by Dr Malu Gatto, discussing her new book 'Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America', with Professor Maxine Molyneux, both from the Institute of the Americas at University College London (UCL).

London, 25 February 2025 – The official commemoration of the 247th anniversary of the birth of General José de San Martín and the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of his statue in Belgrave Square took place with a moving event in London.