Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos

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The Center of Latin-American Studies (Spanish acronym: CELA) is a division of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico responsible for teaching and research in social sciences in the Latin American area. It was founded, in 1960, by Pablo González Casanova.

Its current director is José Maria Calderón. The CELA edits the journal Estudios Latinoamericanos and it has a Permanent Seminar about the region. Along his trajectory it has been provided with members of the height of Clodomiro Almeyda (Chile), Sergio Bagú (Argentina), Agustín Cueva (Ecuador), Ricardo Fenner (Chile), Ruy Mauro Marini (Brazil), Rafael Menjívar (El Salvador), Carlos Morales (Chile), Mario Salazar (El Salvador), Gregorio Selser (Argentina), Enrique Valencia (Colombia) or René Zavaleta Mercado (Bolivia).