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Earlier today, Canning House had the pleasure of meeting with Daniel Quintero, former Vice Minister of Digital Economy of Colombia and a mayoral candidate for the city of Medellín. Mr Quintero is in London as part of his Innovation Tour – aimed at identifying creative solutions for cities.

Cristina Cortes, CEO of Canning House, was delighted to participate in the fourth UK-Brazil Conversa in São Paulo from 1-2 February 2019.

Conversa is a forum for discussions between Brazilian and British businesspeople, policymakers, educationists and others, to explore how to make more of the relations and contacts between Brazil and the UK.

On Tuesday 29th January Cristina Cortes, CEO of Canning House, and Anthony Pereira, Director of the King’s Brazil Institute, gave evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee on the political and economic developments in Chile, Argentina and Brazil.

On 23 January, Juan Guaidó, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly (AN), formally declared himself to be the country’s interim president and said that he will now seek to organise a new general election process to elect a successor to the de facto president, Nicolás Maduro.

On Monday 28th January, Canning House had the pleasure of meeting with Rosalía Morales Acosta, Pedro Kumamoto and Lucrecia Hernández Mack, all of whom are currently on the Foreign Office’s International Leaders Programme.

On Tuesday 22nd January Canning House was delighted to welcome Alejandro Werner, the Director of the Western Hemisphere Department at the International Monetary Fund.