Civica Americana International

Promoting America's civic values throughout the Hispanic world

As a complement to our domestic efforts, Civica Americana International is dedicated to explaining and promoting America's civic values, founding ideals and constitutional free market principles throughout the Spanish speaking world. We believe much of the current wave of populist authoritarianism and anti-Americanism in Latin America is due to a lack of understanding of the basic merits of the American system, compounded by years of misinformation.

America's founding fathers created the decentralized, American system of constitutional federalism, precisely to avoid the rise of a populist and authoritarian demagogues we are now seeing in Latin America. And despite all our imperfections, our founders have so far succeeded in that regard for nearly 220 years.

Civica Americana International is the only US-based non-profit 501 (c) (3) created to perform this vital mission. We hope to bridge the gap in information by using successful Hispanic Americans as goodwill ambassadors in exchange programs and events in Latin America and Spain to help explain and promote American heritage, values and constitutional and free market principles.

To further that mission Civica Americana International is developing links to, and exchange programs with, like-minded groups and institutions throughout the Hispanic world. In addition to this NGO-to-NGO approach we will be creating programs with the various Hispanic foreign embassies in the US to help foster educational programs about the U.S. in their host countries as well as programs for their nationals living in the US.

Additionally, we are developing contacts with the Latin American and Spanish media to serve as a primary point of contact and clearinghouse for information on the United States.

Finally we hope to create a cadre of bi-lingual English teachers and volunteers who can spend weeks or months in these countries teaching English and civics. Other projects are in the funding and development phase.