WOSM- Interamerican Scout Region- Scout Conferences

Interamerican Regional Scout Conferences
Dates and Locations

• First IA Scout Conference: Location- Bogota, Colombia Date- May 27 to June 2 1946
• Second IA Scout Coference: Location- Mexico City, Mexico Date- May 3 to 8 1948
• Third IA Scout Conference: Location- Havana, Cuba Date- February 20 to 25 1953
• Fourth IA Scout Conference: Location- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date- February 22 to 27, 1957
• Fifth IA Scout Conference: Location- Cracas, Venezuela Date- February 22 to 27 1961
• Sixth IA Scout Conference: Location- Kingston, Jamaica Date- August 26 to 29 1964
• Seventh IA Scout Conference: Location- San Salvador, El Salvador Date- July 24 to 29 1968
• 8th IA Scout Conference: Location- Lima, Peru Date- August 11 1972
• 9th IA Scout Conference: Location- Miamai Florida, united States Date- August 5 to 9 1974
• 10th IA Scout Conference: Location- Mexico City Mexico Date- August 24 to 28 1976
• 11th IA Scout Conference: Location- Guatemala City, Guatemala Date- June 5 to 9 1978
• 12th IA Scout Conference: Location- Santiago, Chile Date- October 10 to 19 1980
• 13th IA Scout Conference: Location- Nassau, Bahamas Date- July 25 to 31 1982
• 14th IA Scout Conference: Location- Curitiba, Prana, Brazil Date- September 4 to 8 1984
• 15th IA Scout Conference: Location-Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Date- July 20 to 26 1986
• 16th IA Scout Conference: Location- Buenos Aires, Argentina Date- September 18 to 23 1988
• 17th IA Scout Conference: Location- Montevideo Uruguay Date- November 18 to 23 1990
• 18th IA Scout Conference: Location- San Jose, Costa Rica Date- July 12 to 17 1992
• 19th IA Scout Conference: Location- Cartagena de indias, Colombia Date- September 4 to 8 1995
• 20th IA Scout Conference: Location- Guadalajara, Mexico Date- March 22 to 27 1998
• 21 IA Scout Conference: Location- Cochabamba, Bolivia Date- September 24 to 28 2001
• 22 IA Scout Conference: Location- San Salvador, El Salvador Date- July 31 to August 4 2004
• 23th IA Scout Conference: Location- Quito, Ecuador Date- November 23 to 28 2007

Yours in Scouting Service
Mark W
Junior Assistant Scoutmaster
Troop 1616

WOSM- Interamerican Scout Region- Regional Events

Region Events and Jamborees

There are two regional Jamborees that occur every couple of years. These two jamborees are the Pan-American Jamboree which is primarily for Central and South America and then the Caribbean Jamboree which is for Scouts in the Carribean basin.

Pan-American Jamborees:

• 1st Pan-American Jamboree- Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 1965
• 2nd Pan-American Jamaboree- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1966
• 3rd Pan-American Jamboree- Bogota, Colombia 1974
• 4th Pan-American Jamboree- Porto Alegre, Brazil 1981
  
• 5th Pan-American Jamboree- Kingston, Jamaica 1985
  
• 6th Pan-American Jamboree- Villarrica, Chile 1989
  
• 7th Pan-American Jamboree- La Calera, COlombia 1990
  
• 8th Pan-American Jamboree- Brazil 1992
  
• 9th Pan-American Jamboree- Cochambamba, Bolivia 1994
  
• 10th Pan-American Jamboree- Muxbal, Guatemala 1996
  
• 11th Pan-American Jamboree- Iguacu Falls, Brazil 2001
  
• 12th Pan-American Jamboree- San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina 2005
  
• 13th Pan-American Jamboree- Mexico 2009
  

Carribbean Scout Jamboree

• 1st Carribbean Jamboree- Kingston, Jamaica 1952
• 2nd Carribbean Jamboree- Trinidad and Tobago 1961
• 3rd Carribbean Jamboree- Guyana 1969
• 4th Carribbean Jamboree- Combermerre School, barbados 1972
  
• 5th Carribbean Jamboree-Suriname 1974
  
• 6th Carribbean Jamboree-Jamaica 1977
  
• 7th Carribbean Jamboree- Trinidad and Tobago 1980
  
• 8th Carribbean Jamboree-Suriname (Cancelled) 1984
  
• 9th Carribbean Jamboree- barbados 1987
  
• 10th Carribbean Jamboree- Dominica 1994
  
• 11th Carribbean Jamboree-Trindad and Tobago 1996
  
• 12th Carribbean Jamboree- Saint Lucia 2000
  
• 13th Carribbean Jamboree- Guyana 2003 (Cancelled) Jamaica 2006 (Rescheduled Jamboree)

Yours in Scouting Service
Mark W
Junior Assistant Scoutmaster
Troop 1616

WOSM- Interamerican Scout Region

WOSM Inter-American Scout Region

What is it?
The Interamerican Scout Region is the Scout Region that covers the majority of the Western Hemisphere including North and South America. The headquarters of this WOSM region is found in Santiago, Chile. Up until the 1960's the Region only serviced Mexico, Central and South America with the United States and Canada be serviced through the then named "Boy Scouts International Bureau" which was headquartered in Ottawa, Canda. After the 1960's and up until the present this WOSM region has served the majority of Countries in the western hemisphere. The website is currently only in spanish and primarily serves the Spanish speaking countries currently. It also includes one of the six countries in the world that does not have a Scouting Movement.

WOSM Interamerican Regional Committee Members:

• Ronald Castro- President, Lives in San Salvador, El Salvador, Term ends in 2010
• Omar A, Lugo- 1st Vice President, Mexico City, Mexico, Term ends in 2010
• Nigel Taylor- 2nd Vice President, Bridgetown, Barbados, Term ends in 2010
• Michael Brabshaw- Member, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Term ends in 2013
• Fernando Brodeschi- Member, Curitiba, Brazil, Term Ends in 2013
• Katina George H.- Member, Managua, Nicaragua, Term ends in 2010
• Gilberto Mendoza- Member, Maracay, Venezuela, Term ends in 2013
  
• Oswaldo Navas T.- Member, Quito, Ecuador, Term ends in 2013
• Diego Ospina D.- Member, Bogota, COlombia, Term ends in 2013
• Luis Sabater N,- Member, Domingo, DOminican Republic, Term ends in 2010
  

Headquarters?
Here is the listing from the start to the present of where the Interamerican Region Headquarters are:

• Havana, Cuba (1946 to 1960)
• Kingston Jamaica (1960)
• Mexico City, Mexico (1960 to 1968)
• San Jose, Costa Rica (1968 to 1992)
• Santiago Chile (1992 to Present)

Which Countries Have Scouting?

• Argentina
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Chile
• COlombia
• Costa Rica
• Dominica
• DOminican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Savaldor
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Haiti
  
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
  
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Suriname
• Trinidad and Tobago
• United States
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• Aruba (Associate Member)
• Netherlands Antilles (Associate Members)

That is the Basic Overview for the Interamerican WOSM Region.

Yours in Scouting Service
Mark W
Junior Assistant Scoutmaster
Troop 1616