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Latin America and The Caribbean

This region includes the following countries and territories:

Latin America: Argentina; Chile; Colombia; Mexico; Bolivia; Brazil; Ecuador; Venezuela; Peru; Uruguay; Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; French Guiana; Grenada; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Suriname.

The Caribbean: Haiti; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Bahamas; Barbados; Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Curaçao; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Martinique; Monserrat; Puerto Rico; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Saint-Barthélemy; Sint Maarten; St. Kitts and Nevis; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; Virgin Islands (US).

Mercedes Caso

Senior Program Officer for Latin America and The Caribbean
Thematic area: Indigenous Groups

Mexico City, Mexico
UTC-6/-5
Spanish, English, French
mcasovaldeswikimedia.org
MCasoValdes (WMF)

Contact us

Rapid Fund

If you want to apply or if have any questions about the Rapid Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: lac_rapidwikimedia.org

General Support Fund

If you have any questions about the General Support Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: lac_fundwikimedia.org

Conversation hours

Conversation hours are available for questions, comments, and any general support around our funding programs in the region. Please review the table below for information and links to these meetings:

Date	Time	Language	Topic	Link to meeting
Friday, February 18, 2022	16:00 UTC	Spanish, French, Portuguese	Applications for new round	Google Meet link
Monday, February 21, 2022	18:00 UTC	Spanish, French, Portuguese	Applications for new round	Google Meet link
Wednesday, February 23, 2022	18:00 UTC	Spanish, French, Portuguese	Applications for new round	Google Meet link

Regional Committee

• Alexandrabello, August 2021-
• ayuujk, August 2021- politóloga mixe (Oaxaca, México). Parte del Colmix y de la Red de Activismo Digital de Lenguas Indígenas
• Carlillasa, August 2021- Editora de profesión, músico independiente y wikipedista desde 2016. Nací y vivo en La Paz, Bolivia.
• Chrusky, August 2021-
• Hedestad, August 2021- Sou historiador, atualmente fazendo mestrado, e Wikimedista desde 2018. Sou membro do Wiki Movimento Brasil e vivo em Porto Alegre, no Brasil.
• Kitanago, August 2021- Poète, opérateur culturel, Community Manager. Wikimedien depuis 2018, président du Groupe Utilisateurs Wikimedia Haiti. Je vis dans la ville de Petit-Goâve en Haïti.
• Lilian Viana, August 2021- Eu me chamo Lilian. Atuo como bibliotecária em universidade no Brasil e integro a iniciativa GLAM Bibliotecas da USP. Sou doutora em Ciência da informação. Comecei a explorar o universo Wikimedia em 2019, sobretudo Wikidata e Wikipédia em português. Sou de São Paulo, Brasil.
• Niamfrifruli, August 2021-
• Salvador alc, August 2021- Abogado. Co-fundador de Wikimedia México. Wikimedista desde 2006. Actualmente estudio una Maestría en Tecnologías de la Información. Vivo en Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
• Txolo, August 2021-
• Neima Paz , September 2021-

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