Palabras de bienvenida a cargo del doctor Francisco José Eguiguren Praeli, Coordinador Ejecutivo del Comité Organizador del X Congreso Iberoamericano de Derecho Constitucional.

The article presents a speech by Francisco José Eguiguren Praeli, executive coordinator of the X Congreso Iberoamericano de Derecho Constitucional, a conference on constitutional law held in Lima, Peru in September 2008. The speech, directed to conference attendees, describes the challenges of organizing the conference, announces the publication of a book containing papers presented at the conference, and notes that professor Domingo García Belaunde helped organize the conference.