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July 27, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014During the July 24 summit of foreign ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), held in Mexico City, five nations joined with Mexico to officially establish the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (AECL). Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Costa Rica are the current signatories, but when Celac heads of state meet in September, it is expected that several more governments will sign on. When a preliminary agreement on AECL\u2019s founding was reached last October, participants expressed great optimism that space exploration and related technological and scientific developments and spin offs would be the best way to address the poverty and underdevelopment affecting all their nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The same sentiment was expressed by the foreign ministers who signed on July 24, according to Forbes Mexico<\/em> the same day. The agency\u2019s creation, said Ecuador\u2019s foreign minister, Mauricio Montalvo, is the result of the \u201ccoordinated and harmonious work\u201d within Celac which will \u201ccertainly be of benefit to all of our societies.\u201d Costa Rican foreign minister Rodolfo Solano added that \u201cin the case of Costa Rica, together with nations like Mexico, I find no more responsible way to celebrate 200 years of independent life than to think of the next 200 years, and see space as the frontier to be conquered.\u201d And addressing the skeptics, or those who ask why poor nations think space exploration is an option, Paraguay\u2019s foreign minister, Euclides Acevedo, put it this way: \u201cWe may not yet have satellites to place in orbit, but we are beginning to place in orbit those enemies of success, those apostles of failure, the mediocre and the resentful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 27, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014During the July 24 summit of foreign ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), held in Mexico City, five nations joined with Mexico to officially establish the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (AECL). Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Costa Rica are the current signatories, but when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":77597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[685,722,745,520,743,505,646,744,98],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-77596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-argentina","category-bolivia","category-costa-rica","category-updates-development","category-ecuador","category-updates","category-mexico","category-paraguay","category-updates-space","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77608,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77596\/revisions\/77608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}