Latin American and Caribbean Unity Summit

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The Latin American and Caribbean Unity Summit (Spanish: Cumbre de la Unidad de América Latina y el Caribe) was an international summit held on 22 and 23 February 2010 in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The summit was the joint celebration of the XXI Rio Summit and the II Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development (CALC).

Latin American and Caribbean Unity Summit XXI Rio Summit II Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development
Host country	Mexico
Date	February 22–23, 2010 (2010-02-22 – 2010-02-23)
Cities	Playa del Carmen
Participants	CELAC founder states, except Honduras Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela
Follows	I Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development XX Rio Summit
Precedes	2011 CELAC summit
Key points
Talks towards the establishment of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States

32 countries participated. While the summit was intended to cover 33 countries, Honduras was excluded because of the coup d'état against Manuel Zelaya.

Participating states adopted the Cancún Declaration, calling for the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, replacing the Rio Group and the Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean on Integration and Development (CALC).

Bibliography

• Rojas Aravena, Francisco; Altmann Borbón, Josette; Beirute Brealey, Tatiana (2012). "Integración Política: Un nuevo camino hacia la Integración Latinoamericana". In Altmann Borbón, Josette (ed.). América Latina: Caminos de la integración regional (PDF) (in Spanish). Latin American Social Sciences Institute. pp. 11–48. ISBN 978-9977-68-240-2.

External links

• Official declaration
• Official declaration (Spanish)