Past events

The Department for International Trade is holding a seminar and reception on 'How To Do Business in Latin America: Agriculture Technologies' at Canning House. The purpose of this event is to outline business opportunities in Latin American countries for British companies supplying the agribusiness sector.

As of 30th November, a winner had yet to be announced for the presidential election in Honduras held on 26th November. With half of the votes counted, Salvador Nasralla, of the opposition Alianza de Oposición contra la Dictadura coalition, looked set to be the winner. The latest count however gives incumbent Juan Orlando Hernández, of the ruling right-wing Partido Nacional, the lead. Nasralla has announced that he will not recognise the final result and decries electoral fraud. International observers have expressed concern, especially in light of the violent nature of some protests.

This event is a follow-up to our very successful first 'Brexit and Immigration' panel, held in February this year. Since then, article 50 has been triggered, and negotiations are underway between Theresa May's government and the EU; yet the type of Brexit pursued continues to be unclear, and the question remains as to how the rights and status of EU citizens will be affected when the UK eventually leaves the European Union. This event is an opportunity to discuss the situation with a knowledgeable panel and unpick the possible future scenarios, with specific reference to the citizens of Spain and Portugal.

Canning House and the Instituto Cervantes are delighted to welcome María Odette Canivell and Gerald Martin to deliver a lecture on Miguel Angel Asturias, Nobel-prize winning Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Asturias, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 for Hombres de maíz (1949), has been credited with contributing to the establishment of Latin American literature in the Western world, and is considered a precursor to the Latin American boom of the 1960s and '70s.