Joint Annual Technical Meeting of the American Legal Social Commission (CAJS) and Sub-Region V: Mexico and the Latin Caribbean, in Havana, Cuba.

On Thursday 20 and Friday October 21, in the Taganana Meeting Room of the historical National Hotel in the Habana, Cuba, took place the Joint Technical Meeting of the CAJS and Sub-Region V, with the main thematic of the "Transformation of Labor Legislation and Social Protection in Ages Close to Retirement", thanks to the kind support of Cuba’s Ministry of Labor and Social Security.

The meeting consisted of five technical conferences on retirement issues and a sub-regional panel which was attended by representatives of different countries, who spoke on the legal reforms of the retirement age. The speakers who participated were Dr. Gabriel Martínez, Secretary General of the CISS; Ms. Bárbara López, Legal Director of Cuba’s National Social Security Institute; Mr. Walter Funes of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute; Dr. Rafael Modesto Pérez, General Manager of the National Council for Social Security of the Dominican Republic; Dr. Jorge D'Angelo, President of the American Commission for Older Adults; Dr. Estela Altalef, Academic of AMAOTE; Dr. Alberto Fernandez, Director of Care for the Elderly of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba; Dr. Victor Hugo Borja, Head of the Coordination of Epidemiological Surveillance from the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Eduardo Morales Aguirre, Coordinator of Social Benefits IMSS; Dr. Martha Miranda, Researcher of the CISS; Verónica Zetter, Coordinator of Institutional Risk Management of IMSS, and Dr. Fidel Ferreras, Social Security Consultant and Former Director of the National Social Security Institute of Spain. As part of the presidium of the meeting, we counted on the distinguished participation of Ms. Yusimí Campos, Cuba’s National Director of Social Security; Mr. Josue Argeñal of Hondura’s Social Security Institute for Law Professionals, and Technical Secretary of the CAJS; Mr. Iker Reyes, Deputy Director of International Affairs at the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers, Mexico (ISSSTE), and Dr. Martínez.

One of the most important aspects of this meeting was the presentation of The Americas Social Security Report 2012 by the CISS, and in particular the results of the analysis of social security systems’ expected benefits for retirement in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In total, the meeting was attended by 45 officers from twelve social security institutions and 9 countries from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

In the following days, you will be able to find all the material of the event (presentations, pictures and list of attendants) directly at the CISS webpage: www.ciss.org.mx