The CEU CEFAS Institute of American Studies has inaugurated its first office outside Spain: the Regional Office – Peru Chapter. This new space in Lima will serve as the Institute’s operations hub throughout the region. Its main objective is to promote the shared values and heritage of Hispanidad, as well as the accurate dissemination of Spanish viceregal history. The work of this new regional office will focus especially on organizing congresses and academic and outreach activities—particularly in Peru—as well as on research and the creation of new collaboration agreements with like-minded institutions in Peru and across the wider American region.

At the inauguration of the regional office, the Director of the CEU CEFAS Institute of American Studies, Consuelo Martínez-Sicluna, underscored the importance for both Spaniards and Peruvians of defending our shared identity and history, stating that “Hispanidad is who we are and, above all, it is a shared outlook toward the future, full of countless opportunities that we will be better able to seize together.” Likewise, Peruvian entrepreneur and member of the Advisory Council of the CEU CEFAS Institute of American Studies, Diego De la Torre, also emphasized at the event that “there is still much work to be done to reaffirm the significance of what Hispanidad represented and what it should represent today.” In this regard, De la Torre also expressed his satisfaction with the opening of this regional office and with the new chapter that CEU CEFAS is beginning in Peru.

The inauguration of the Regional Office – Peru Chapter was attended by the CEU CEFAS Institute of American Studies team, consisting of its Director, Consuelo Martínez-Sicluna; its Secretary General, Eduardo Puig de la Bellacasa; and the Head of International Outreach, Yilian Ayala. Also in attendance were Gustavo Nakamura, CEU CEFAS collaborator in Ibero-America and local coordinator of this office; representatives of the Luis Enrique Tord Civil Association; and Spanish entrepreneur Ignacio Heras Llorente.