♤ It is essential to raise India’s global profile and expand the country’s footprints with the

region which boasts a combined GDP of $4.9 trillion and is home to 600 million

inhabitants, nearly half the population of India, but with a landmass five times that of India.

♤ Latin America, according to a report by Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean of the United Nations, netted 179 billion dollars of FDI in 2013, the highest record for any region in the world.

♤ The relations have been influenced in the past seven decades by Cold War Era, Global Politics, Physical distance, Mutually divergent priorities. India and South America have barely managed to maintain minimal bilateral ties for the last several decades. India’s eminence is rising on the global stage but this has not yet found an expression in Latin America.