IPS has correspondents and stringers throughout Latin America, from Mexico to Chile, and in the Caribbean. The regional headquarters, our centre of operations, has been located in Montevideo, Uruguay, since 1994. Internal agency jargon gave rise to the name IPS Latam, or simply "ipslatam", our regional trademark (www.ipslatam.net). Working in Montevideo is a highly qualified group of editors and translators, who handle the journalistic reports from that region and the world, and translate the stories featured in www.ipsnoticias.net into English and those in www.ipsnews.net into Spanish. A technical and support team is also based there, managing and carrying out projects, services, publications, web pages and other IPS products and services.

Latin America initiated and continues to anchor the production of multi-media TerraViva operations of IPS. TerraViva is the general name for a family of publications born at the 1992 World Summit on Environment organised by the United Nations in Rio de Janeiro. Since then, TerraViva has been present at all major world gatherings, and has become part of the World Social Forum tradition. TerraViva is also the name of two newsletters sent daily to subscribers via e-mail, fax and web: TerraViva Daily Journal (www.dailyjournal.org), from the United Nations in New York, and TerraViva Europe (www.ipsterraviva.net), from the European Union in Brussels, and there is also a weekly Latin American edition in Spanish (www.ipsnoticias.net/terraviva.shtml). TerraViva Africa launched this year a weekly selection from the IPS wire of stories from and about Africa (http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/pdf/Terraviva_africa.pdf).

In São Paulo, Brazil, IPS news and columnist services and Tierramérica are translated into Portuguese, in cooperation with the local agency Envolverde (http://www.envolverde.com.br), which distributes these materials to thousands of subscribers all over Brazil.

World AIDS Day - December 1. In 2001, with the support of UNAIDS and the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO), IPS produced a special edition about HIV/AIDS, which was distributed as a supplement to major Latin American newspapers as part of World AIDS Day, and was also featured as a special web page within the IPS news website in three languages ( English , Spanish and Portuguese). Some of these articles were also turned into an audio product for radio distribution, and special e-mail newsletters were produced in English and Spanish, and distributed to subscribers in the region. Since the initiative proved so successful, it was repeated in 2002, with PAHO's support, once again making and impact, and turning into an annual project.

Communication Services: founded in 1996, IMS is a holding company for a group of interconnected firms specialised in providing a range of media, news, information, research and translation services. IMS services are available in 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean on a region-wide or country-by-country basis, with the support of IPS.

The network of fully staffed field offices in the region is equipped to collaborate on media monitoring and clipping services. Field offices are managed by seasoned journalists assisted by a support staff with years of experience in their markets.

With its professional team and its expertise in the field, IPS is developing similar initiatives with various NGOs and institutions specialised in development issues.

A pioneer agreement was signed between IPS and El Puente, a Uruguayan community radio station, in order to produce a weekly audio bulletin with IPS material. The radio bulletin will be uploaded weekly, directly from the radio station, onto our web sites.

IPS Latam also has an exchange agreement with a Colombian community radio and with the Venezuelan Radio Fe y Alegría, a Catholic church-owned educational radio network with national coverage, to start a pilot exchange project similar to the one with El Puente, in which the radio station will produce a weekly segment with IPS material, and IPS will in turn upload it to the website.

Tierramérica is an IPS, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) joint initiative, which includes associated media in Latin America, for the production of a weekly page on environment and sustainable development, written and edited by IPS. Tierramérica stories are published by a growing number of leading national newspapers in the region, and on the Tierramérica web site (http://www.tierramerica.net), appearing in Spanish, English and Portuguese. The project includes the development of other products, among them a radio programme, CD-ROMs and educational materials.

Latin America Regional Headquarters

Joaquín Costanzo
Regional Director - Latin America
J. C. Gómez 1445 / P1
11000 Montevideo, Uruguay
Tel: 598-2-9164397
Fax: 598-2-9163598
Email: jcostanzo@ipslatam.net
http://ipsnoticias.net

Editorial Enquiries

Diana Cariboni
Regional Editor
J. C. Gómez 1445 / P1
11000 Montevideo, Uruguay
Tel: 598-2-9164397
Fax: 598-2-9163598
Email: dcariboni@ipslatam.net

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