Overview
- The Declaración de La Plata formally created the Red Iberoamericana de Lenguaje Claro y Accesible at the close of the III Convención de la Red Panhispánica, converting a regional movement into a multilateral platform.
- Major institutions that signed include the Real Academia Española, the Association of Spanish Language Academies, the Academia Argentina de Letras, the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, the Academia Brasileira de Letras, the Secretaría General Iberoamericana, the OEI and the Suprema Corte de Justicia of Buenos Aires.
- Organizers and backers led by RAE director Santiago Muñoz Machado framed the initiative around the combined Spanish‑Portuguese space and argued the network will coordinate shared projects, resources and policy to improve comprehension and equity in public-facing language.
- The convention brought more than 250 presentations and about 1,200 participants and identified priority areas such as judicial and administrative texts, education and digital communications, but left concrete governance, programs and timelines to be defined.
- A fourth convention is planned for spring 2028 with possible hosts in Valparaíso, Lisbon or Seville, and officials said the next months will focus on turning the declaration’s commitments into operational mechanisms that affect how governments and courts write for the public.