Foreign Branches of Fondo de Cultura Económica

	FCE Chile
	Agency est.1954. Foreign branch est. 1989.
Address:	Paseo Bulnes 152, Santiago, Chile
Manager:	Miriam Morales

	FCE Brazil
	Foreign branch est. June 21, 1991.
Address:	Rua Bartira, 351 Perdizes, São Paulo, CEP 05009-000, Brazil
Manager:	Isaac Vinic

	FCE Argentina
	Foreign branch est. in 1945.
Address:	El Salvador 5665, C 1414 BQE Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Manager:	Leandro de Sagastizábal
Founding manager:	Arnaldo Orfila Reynal

The Foreign Branches of Fondo de Cultura Económica are offices that the Mexican publishing house has established outside of Mexico. Ever since the first foreign branch of FCE opened in 1945, they have done nothing but expand and grow. These branches are very varied in their programs and facilities, but all aim toward the same goal: to promote the best books written in Spanish throughout the region and the world.

FCE Argentina

The first foreign branch of Fondo de Cultura Económica was inaugurated in 1945 in Argentina; first directed by Arnaldo Orfila Reynal, it quickly became an essential reference point among Argentine academics. For more than half a century the branch of FCE in Argentina has promoted Mexican culture and its topmost scientific and literary writers. During the 1990s, FCE Argentina started its own very important editorial program that alternates the publishing of Argentine and foreign writers through translations.

FCE Brazil

Established June 21, 1991, the Azteca bookstore of Fondo de Cultura Económica in Brazil has the role of promoting the works of Mexican and other Latin American writers, as well as maintaining the linguistic exchange among Portuguese and Spanish-speaking communities in Brazil.

FCE Chile

Even though Fondo de Cultura Económica has been present in Chile since 1954, the real beginning of this foreign branch was in 1989, after diplomatic relations between Mexico and this country were reestablished in 1973. This branch has consolidated its own editorial program through the joint publishing of books with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Economical Commission for Latin America.

FCE Colombia

FCE Colombia
Agency est. 1975. Foreign branch est. 1984.
Address:	Carrera 16, #80-18, Barrio El Lago, Bogotá, Colombia
Manager:	Juan Camilo Sierra

Fondo de Cultura Económica established a distributing agency in Colombia in 1975 that aimed to import and distribute books that were originally printed in Mexico. However, this role was very quickly surpassed when in 1984 the foreign branch of FCE Colombia was formally constituted as a publishing house in Bogotá. Since then, this branch’s role has been to reprint and market important titles for the Colombian readers in order to reduce their selling costs.

In 2000 FCE Colombia acquired its own building.

FCE Guatemala and Central America

FCE Guatemala and Central America
Foreign branch est. 1998.
Address:	6a. Avenida, 8-65, Zona 9, Guatemala, C.A.
Manager:	César Ángel Aguilar

FCE’s branch in Guatemala has a program for promoting and commercializing books throughout the Central American region. Additionally, an editorial program was started in 2000 that specializes in printing Mayan-Spanish bilingual books by famous Guatemalan authors.

FCE Peru

FCE Peru
Foreign branch est. 1975.
Address:	Jirón Berlín núm. 238, Miraflores, Lima 18, Perú
Manager:	Rosario Torres Pesantes

In 1975 the branch of Fondo de Cultura Económica in Lima, Peru, opened.

FCE Spain

FCE Spain
Foreign branch est. April 24, 1963.
Address:	Calle Fernando El Católico núm. 86, Conjunto Residencial Galaxia, Madrid 28015, Spain
Manager:	Marcelo Díaz

The branch of Fondo de Cultura Económica in Spain was established on April 24, 1963. FCE Spain has signed multiple agreements with prestigious universities. It has co-published, among many other works, the collections Biblioteca Premios Cervantes with the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, and Génesis y desarrollo del Estado moderno in collaboration with the European Science Foundation.

FCE USA

FCE USA
Foreign branch est. December 14, 1989.
Address:	2293 Verus Street, San Diego, CA 92154, USA
Manager:	Edgardo Moctezuma

FCE USA is the foreign branch of Mexican publishing house Fondo de Cultura Económica in the United States.

Established on September 7, 1990.

In order to augment its presence in the USA, FCE USA signed an agreement with Lectorum-Scholastic for the distribution and commercialization of books among the latter’s library and school networks

FCE Venezuela

FCE Venezuela
Foreign branch est. 1994.
Address:	Edif. Torres Polar, P.B. Local "E", Plaza Venezuela, Caracas
Manager:	Pedro Tucat

The building in which the branch of Fondo de Cultura Económica in Venezuela is established was inaugurated in 1994, and it comprises a bookstore, the administrative offices and a distribution company.

Even though the demand for books in Venezuela is relatively small, FCE’s branch in this country has opened two bookstores in Caracas.

The manager for this branch, Pedro Tucat, has been working with FCE for more than 30 years.