ALAS (America Latina en Accion Solidaria) has announced that two large-scale concerts Tuesday Apr 22, 2008 1:00pm EST It’s finally here…ALAS (America Latina en Accion Solidaria) has announced that two large-scale concerts will take place in Buenos Aires and Mexico City on May 17th to improve the lives of children living in poverty in Latin America. The concerts will be free and more details will be released soon… * * Courtesy of Latingossip The ALAS Foundation (America Latina en Accion Solidaria - "Latin America for Solidarity") launched on December 12 2006, in the National Theater of Panama. The Foundation is based at the City of Knowledge in this Central American country. With the goal of helping the neediest, artists, intellectuals, businessmen, international organizations and NGOs have gathered to form the ALAS Foundation, the largest cultural solidarity movement in the history of Latin America. With the aim of replacing philanthropy with commitment and charity with solidarity, personalities from the world of culture such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Miguel Bose, Diego Torres, Juanes, Babasonicos, Mana, Ruben Blades, Daniela Mercury and Danilo Pere have risen to the occasion, as well as outstanding individuals in the Latin American world, such as Carlos Slim, Emilio Azcarraga, Alejandro Santo Domingo, Alejandro Soberon, Joseph Safra, Roberto Kriete, Marinela Servitje, Stanley Motta, Alberto Bollmer, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Felipe Gonzalez, Oscar Arias, Sergio Renan and Jaime Baily. All of them have joined to fight hunger, poverty and marginalization. Latin America has 54 million children age 5 and under and no less than 32 million of them are currently living in poverty. ALAS will bring together a diverse group of artists, intellectuals and entrepreneurs to launch a new social movement that will generate a collective commitment to Early Childhood Development programs for the children in Latin America on May 17th by simultaneously holding two concerts in Mexico City and Buenos Aires. Who is performing? Alejandro Sanz Aleks Syntek Babasonicos Calle 13 Chayanne David Bisbal Diego Torres Fito Paez Gustavo Cerati Jorge Drexler Juan Luis Guerra Juanes Los Tigres del Norte Mana Miguel Bose Paulina Rubio Ricardo Montaner Ricky Martin Shakira and Timbiriche.