Indian Embassies in Latin America and Caribbean
Latin American and caribbean Embassies in Delhi
Honorary consulates of India in LAC region
Honorary Consulates of LAC region in India
Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi - Latin America and Caribbean Division
Embassy Contacts
India has embassies in 13 of the 33 countries in LAC region. In addition, there is a consulate in Sao Paulo. A new embassy is being opened in Guatemala in 2009. The other 19 countries are covered by these embassies under concurrent accreditation. Some of the embassies have websites, which provide market information.
Indian embassies, as part of Economic Diplomacy, work proactively in partnership with Indian business for the promotion of India's external economic and commercial interests.
There are 16 LAC embassies in India. some of them have websites. The latest embassy opened was by El Salvador in 2008. Costa Rica and Guatemala are planning to open embassies in Delhi.
Honorary consulates provide limited support for business promotion. They do not issue visas. They are not paid by the Governments.
These Honorary Consuls in India can give general information but not visas. Some of them assist in getting visas.
Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi
Latin America and caribbean Division
Head of Division - Dammu Ravi , Joint Secretary,
room 144 B South Block
fone- 23015192, fax- 23013280, mail- jslac@mea.gov.in
Director- Bala Bhaskar
room -67 South Block
fone-23010591, Mail - dirlac@mea.gov.in
Deputy Secretary - Gloria Gangte
room 271 South Block
fone- 23019871 , mail-uslac2@mea.gov.in
Shri Anil Mukim , Joint Secretary
fone- 23061818, , mail a.mukim@nic.in
Ms Suchismita Palai , Director
Telefax: 23061274
e-mail: moc_ftlac@nic.in
website http://commerce.nic.in/
Indo-Latin American Chamber of Commerce and Industry at Chennai
The Chamber was inagurated on 20 March 2006.
convenor : Ravichandran. Besides doing business with Latin America, he has done a Ph.D on trade with Latin America.
contacts : Tel 55640818, fax 26257861, mail indolac@vsnl.net
The Confederation of Indian Industry ( CII ) , New Delhi
This is the apex body of industries and have offices in many cities of India.
web : http://www.ciionline.org
contact : Kavita Choudhry, Head of Latin America Division
Deepa Mehta and Tarun Gupta are the other offciers in the Latin America Division