The OMLAL was established on Friday, October 25, 2013 in the City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, during a meeting of the representatives of the various Latino Associations representing the Latino business and community from four continents (America, Europe, Asia, and Australia) and Governments from Latin America.
The Mission of the Organization is to support growth and economic and social development of Latin Americans.
The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.
i. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its members.
ii. To create and develop initiatives of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character while promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction of any kind, and a center for harmonizing the efforts of Latin societies to achieve these common goals.
OMLAL will have three fields of action: Commercial, Social and Cultural, The General Council is the governing body, acting as a permanent forum where presidents of chambers of commerce, others business and cultural associations, etc, and representatives of the Latin American Governments under an egalitarian system and true solidarity, discuss and agree on guidelines and initiatives of the organization, and under the authority of the same, two subsidiary organs would take action on their specific fields:
1) Worldwide Latino Chambers of Commerce (WLCC), limited to commercial issues.
2) Latinos Institute Abroad, limited to Cultural and Social issues
he set of Organizations invited to sign OCDAL, represent more than 761.749 Latino businesses in the world. Geographically, OCDAL will be the voice of approximately 50 million Latinos abroad.
