Participants of the first ever Sub-Regional Consultation Meeting for Latin America (from left): Mr. Emmanuel Garcia (Buenos Aires PE), Commercial Counsellor Vichael Angelo Roaring (Mexico PE), Ambassador Linglingay Lacanlale (Buenos Aires PE), Ambassador Marichu Mauro (Brasilia PE), Charge d’Affaires Marcos A.S. Punsalang (Santiago PE), and Consul Maria Carmela Theresa Cabreira (Mexico PE).

Philippine Foreign Service Posts (FSPs) in Latin America (LatAm) gathered together in Brazil to discuss ideas and projects of mutual interest on 15 March 2019 at the Philippine Embassy in Brasilia.

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL: As part of its mandate to deliver outreach services to Filipinos under its jurisdiction, the Philippine Embassy in Brazil provided consular services to Filipinos in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, 17 March 2019 at the aptly named South American Copacabana Hotel in the famed Copacabana area of Rio. 

Processing the passport applications of the littlest of Filipinos.

PARAMARIBO, SURINAME: More than a hundred Filipinos availed of consular services during the Philippine Embassy in Brasilia’s Consular Outreach Mission in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. 

A total of 115 passport applications was processed during the two-day consular service which was held on 23-24 February 2019 at Queens Hotel in Paramaribo. Twenty-six (26) applications for authentication services and five (5) civil registrations were also processed.

PORTO ALEGRE: The Philippine Embassy in Brasilia conducted its first consular outreach for 2019 in Porto Alegre on 3 February. Porto Alegre is the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil.

A total of 20 consular services was rendered during the Consular Outreach, all of them passport renewals.

The Embassy regularly conducts outreach missions to provide consular services to Filipinos under its jurisdiction. The Embassy intends to hold more consular outreach missions this year in order to reach more Filipinos in the areas of its jurisdiction.

As part of its Gender and Development (GAD) Program, the Philippine Embassy in Brasilia, in partnership with ABAC Luz - Associação Brasiliense de Apoio Ao Paciente com Câncer (Brazilian Association for Supporting Patients with Cancer), held a talk on Breast Cancer Prevention for the Filipino community in Brasilia on 9 December 2018 at the Chancery. Dr. Lucy Ishii of ABAC Luz was the resource speaker. She also provided free breast screening to the attendees.

After a traditional Filipino lunch, the attendees were treated to a screening of Bamboo Flowers, a film by the late Maryo J. de los Reyes.

Ambassador Marichu Mauro handed over the chairmanship of the ASEAN Committee in Brasilia (ACB) to Malaysian Ambassador Lin Juay Jin on 6 December 2018 in a ceremony during the seventh meeting of the year of the ACB and the fourth convened under the Philippines’  chairmanship.

The Philippine Embassy in Brasilia participated in the annual bazaar, “13th Feira Internacional das Embaixadas,” held at the Expobrasilia, Parque da Cidade, in Brasilia on 10 November 2018. The bazaar was organized by the Grupo dos Cônjuges dos Chefes de Missão (GCCM) (Group of the Spouses of the Chiefs of Missions) and participated in by the 84 diplomatic missions based in Brazil.  

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA: Colombia’s commitment to moving forward its bilateral relations with the Philippines was the main sentiment that was highlighted during H.E. Ambassador Marichu Mauro’s meeting with the Director-General of Asia, Oceania and Africa of the Colombian Ministry of External Relations, Mr. Alfredo Ramos (left) last 25 October 2018 in Bogotá.  The meeting between the two officials was held to follow-up on matters discussed during their previous meeting last July. Assistant Director Rodrigo Amaya (center) was also present in the meeting.