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Lima Convention Center
The Lima Convention Center (; LCC), also known as the 27 January Convention Center () is a convention centre in San Borja, Lima, Peru. It is located in the cultural center of the city of Lima, around the ''Museo de la Nación'' and the National Library of Peru The National Library of Peru () is the national library of Peru, located in Lima. It is the country's oldest and most important library. Like the majority of Peruvian libraries, it is a non-circulating library. It has two branches. The old build ..., in an area of 10,884 m2. It was inaugurated on October 1, 2015. The complex has the capacity to accommodate around 10,000 people, has 18 rooms and four levels of basements and 4 floors of an auditorium. The building hosted the 2016 APEC summit and the 8th Summit of the Americas in 2018, among others. See also * Torre Banco de la Nación, located next to the building. * Sheraton Lima Historic Center, another convention centre in Lima References {{coord, -12.0872, -7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Summit Of The Americas
The eighth Summit of the Americas was held in Lima, Peru, from April 13–14, 2018. The main focus of the summit was anti-corruption following the outbreak of the Odebrecht scandal, which affected numerous countries in the region, while attention was also put upon the Crisis in Venezuela (2012–present), crisis in Venezuela. Background The 2015 Summit of the Americas in Panama was held in a positive atmosphere, largely thanks to Barack Obama's Cuban Thaw, normalization of relations with Cuba, which was welcomed by the rest of the Western Hemisphere as a long-overdue rectification of a Cold War relic, considering that Latin American leaders, especially those in Bolivia and Venezuela, warned at the 2012 Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, that the holding the 2015 summit was impossible without Cuba's participation. However, Donald Trump in June 2017 announced a reinvigorated hardline towards Cuba by banning U.S. business transactions with Cuban companies run by the Cuban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |