On February 10, 2012, the then president of the
Colombian Professional Baseball League, together with executives of
Liga Invernal Veracruzana, organized the Mexico-Colombia International Baseball Series between the champions of both competitions, where the Colombian champions,
Toros de Sincelejo and Veracruz champions,
Brujos de Los Tuxtlas, met in a 3-game series at
Estadio Once de Noviembre in
Cartagena, Colombia, with the Colombian outfit winning two games to one. In the case of Mexico, the representative is the champion of Liga Invernal Veracruzana. Often, teams who qualify for this competition receive loan players from other teams in their respective leagues in order to improve their country's chance of winning. With the creation of the
Latin American Professional Baseball Association in late-2012, the idea of creating a series that would integrate Latin American professional baseball teams materialised. As a result, the first Latin American Series was held from February 1 to 4, 2013 in
Veracruz, Mexico. The first five editions of the series only contained teams from
Colombia,
Nicaragua,
Mexico and
Panama until the first expansion of the competition in 2018. This expansion included
Curaçao, who had just created a professional league, followed by
Argentina in 2019, with the intention of inviting
Chile once a professional league is set up. The rules of the competition were based on those of the
World Baseball Classic. Teams wore their respective national team uniforms, rather than their own professional uniforms. The impetus for the Latin American Series eventually faded with the expansion of the
Caribbean Series to non-members of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (CPBC). Panama, which was scheduled to host the 2020 edition, withdrew from the competition after being invited to the
2019 and
2020 Caribbean Series. On January 12, 2020, the ALBP confirmed the suspension of the 2020 edition. Colombia would also be invited to the 2020 Caribbean Series, as would Curaçao to the
2023 edition, thus making the Latin American Series moot. ==Leagues participating==