Ibero-America

Ibero-America is a term that since the second half of the 19th century. is needed for those countries on the American continent, formerly colonies of Spain or Portugal were. Spain and Portugal are themselves included in some names, eg in the Ibero -American Summits, or Organization Latin American countries.

The term avoids the word part Latin, to meet the languages ​​spoken in North, Central and South America variants of the Spanish and Portuguese languages ​​accurately. He also emphasizes the traditional relations with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal and Andorra) that are closely in the fields of politics, economy and culture still. Above all, however, this term solves the ambiguity of the term Latin America as the French-speaking areas in America were never counted on Latin America, although French is a Romance language.

Since the 1990s, these states founded on the initiative of Spain's King Juan Carlos, some organizations the official coordinating their collaboration. Some organize conferences - sometimes a year or every two years, partly as needed.