[[-- Translated text (es -> en) --]] Dear colleagues, you all know me and know of my predisposition to strengthen our region. This process has led me in these 15 years to assume responsibilities as ALAC Member and then as president of the region (position I hold until the date), with the same objective as always, the growth of our region, stability, institutional strengthening and involvement of the voice of Latin America and the Caribbean in the various topics of ICANN since an end-user impact perspective. It was my luck to start a new stage with construction logics different and open a new path that implies more participation based on diversity and pluralism, more institutional strength and better impact on ICANN's policies of concern. Part of that achievement could not have been done without the accompaniment of our secretary Harol Arcos who today is running for the position of Vice President of the region. All this that I comment can be reflected in the working groups of the region, the Universal Acceptance Course (recently completed) with more of 160 registered, the Magazine in PDF Format and On Line in four languages that came out a couple of days ago (Portuguese and French in Brief) or the Webinars and the ICANN Academy in Spanish that will begin to function in our next meeting in San Juan de Puerto Rico. This next stage is a new regional challenge, where we have leadership new and where they must necessarily be strengthened with leaderships with historical experience and institutional memory, are moments of accompaniment to the new leadership of the region beginning in November and that without a doubt they will have a lot to do in this challenge of two years that they have. This is why I am running, firmly believing in what we build in these years and in the challenges that we face in the future with our new regional leadership. A hug * Sergio Salinas Porto ** Argentine Internet President - LACRALO / ICANN <https://atlarge.icann.org/ralos/lacralo> ** Argentine Association of Internet users<http://www.internauta.org.ar/> / FeTIA <http://www.fetia.org.ar/> ** FUILAC- Federation of Internet Users Of the C<https://fuilac.org> ** facebook: salinasporto <http://www.facebook.com/salinasporto> ** twitter: sergiosalinas <http://twitter.com/sergiosalinas> ** Mobi: +54 9 223 5 215819 ** "Hopefully we can be disobedient, every time we receive humiliating orders our * * conscience or violate our common sense "Eduardo Galeano *