SELA has actively participated in the efforts to encourage AEC from its very origin, when the officials of the Great Caribbean, including Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, met to define the constitution and the working program.Most of the members of AEC also belongs to SELA which comprises the whole region of Latin America.One of SELA’s main objective is that of fomenting the regional integration among the Latin American states and the Caribbean.Both SELA and AEC closely collaborate in topics comprising regional and international trade, sustained development and matters of interest in the fields of culture, science and technology.