FDCL forms a lively office-community with the Lateinamerika Nachrichten LN-Journal since 1974 and with the BLUE21 - whose rooms also are the domicile of attac berlin - since 1996. We are located on the upper floor of the Mehringhof in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Since our foundation we cooperate with social movements and civil society organizations from all parts of Latin America within the framework of our educational and awareness raising activities.

The FDCL is part of several development and solidarity networks and campaigns. For example, it is member of the Berliner Entwicklungspolitischer Ratschlag BER,  the network of  Brazil-groups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: Kooperation Brasilien KoBra, the Tropenwaldnetzwerk Brasilien, the Bundeskoordination Internationalismus BUKO, the federation of archives Archiv³, the Koalition gegen Straflosigkeit, the Bildungsnetzwerk "Eine Welt Berlin" des Entwicklungs­politischen Bildungs- und Informations­zentrum – EPIZ e.V. Berlin, the CorA - Corporate Accountability Netzwerk für Unternehmensverantwortung, the latin american/european biregional network Enlazando Alternativas, the Netzwerk Selbsthilfe and of ATTAC-Germany.

Together with the Latin America Department of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation (Berlin and Rio de Janeiro) the FDCL since 2003 works on development and human rights-related aspects of free-trade-agreements, especially regarding free trade of the European Union with the MERCOSUR. The Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI) has also joined this project in 2006.

In the seventies and eighties LN and FDCL have organized series of events concerning the most different topics and have issued special editions and book projects, e.g. "Football and Torture" Argentina World Cup or with respect to the nuclear deals of West-Germany with Brazil and Argentina, women in Nicaragua, the relations between West-Germany and Nicaragua, democracy in Costa Rica, the change in Nicaragua, unions in Chile and many other topics. A complete overview can be found here. The event series, like the Latin America Days organized between 1980 and 1991 or the counter-campaign against the 500-year celebrations in the "Columbus-Year" 1992 attracted lots of people from far beyond Berlin. During the first years a central reference point of the activities of LN and FDCL was the struggle against Latin American military dictatorships. The revolutionary movements in Central America and the outbreak of the debt crisis in Latin America also became important moments of discussion and preoccupation.

Since the nineties several new topics and debates joined, like the Zapatista movement in Mexican Chiapas and social movements in Argentina; the history of feminism, the landless-movement, police violence and the situation in the jails as well as the difficult mission of human rights defense in Brazil; the detention of Pinochet 1998 and the impunity debate and issues like the situation of political prisioners in Chile; new grass-rootsprojects in Venezuela, the Argentine Cacerolazo in 2001 and occupied factories; piqueteros in Argentina and the water war in Cochabamba (Bolivia); the fight against megaprojects and the fight for land;  grass-roots projects and cooperatives; human rights violations in the Amazonas region. The Plan Colombia and social conflicts around natural resources, bio-piracy and the neoliberal advance in the entire continent in the context of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), regarding the EU-MERCOSUR free-trade negotiations or the WTO; the conflicts with respect to patents and intellectual property in the framework of TRIPS, the development agenda or the (non-) access to knowledge in the WIPO; a critical analysis of German development cooperation in the water sector and the discussion on free trade and industrial development; the critique of value chain approaches and of liberalization negotiations; the antagonism of the World Economic Forum in Davos and the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre; the European Social Forum and trans-continentally linked alternatives; the newspaper and journal archive of the seventies and the freely accessible online archive with historical treasures.  Besides political and economic issues we also focus intensively on the cultural Latin America: literature, movies and movie-festivals, music - all this has become an inherent part of LN- articles and FDCL activities.

Our current topics and projects can be found on the FDCL project-page.

The work of FDCL is mainly financed by project-based contributions of diverse donors and foundations. In order to maintain our financial independence, however, we also depend on donations. As a non-profit registered association we give tax-reduction certificates. The members of the association are informed at least once a year about the ongoing work and activities. The work of  FDCL is done to a large extent by volunteers.