Bladex Announces Quarterly Dividend Payment for First Quarter 2008

PANAMA CITY, March 14  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones, S.A. (Bladex) (NYSE:BLX), announced today that the $0.22 per share quarterly cash dividend corresponding to the first quarter of 2008 and approved by the Board of Directors on February 13, 2007, is payable on April 4, 2008 to the Bank's stockholders as of record March 25, 2008.

As of February 29, 2008, Bladex had 36,370,148.79 common shares outstanding of all classes.

Bladex is a supranational bank originally established by the Central Banks of Latin America and Caribbean countries to promote trade finance in the Region. Based in Panama, its shareholders include central and state-owned entities in 23 countries of the Region, as well as Latin American and international commercial banks, and institutional and retail investors.

For further information, please access our website at http://www.bladex.com/ or contact:

Bladex, Head Office, Calle 50 y Aquilino de la Guardia, Panama, Republic of Panama

Attention: Mr. Jaime Celorio, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer 

  Tel.: [phone], E-mail: 
  -or-
  i-advize Corporate Communications, Inc., 82 Wall Street, Suite 805,
  New York, NY 10005
  Attention: Ms. Melanie Carpenter or Mr. Peter Majeski
  Tel.: [phone], E-mail: 

DATASOURCE: Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones, S.A.



CONTACT:  Jaime Celorio, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer,

Bladex, +011-507-210-8563, ; or Melanie Carpenter or Peter

Majeski, both of i-advize Corporate Communications, Inc., [phone],

, for Bladex



Web site:  http://www.bladex.com/ 

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