Indira Gandhi’s visits to eight countries in the region in 1968.

♤ Prime Minster Narendra Modi during his visit to Brazil for the BRICS Summit in 2014 , hinted at a promise of greater engagement.

♤ Prime Minister Modi has not visited any Latin American nation after the BRICS Summit of 2014, and in 2016 he became the first Indian PM to have missed the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit, that year hosted by Venezuela.