page_title: OTI Festival
section_title: By country
hierarchical_section_title: OTI Festival / By country
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Iberoamerica by OTI Festival victories.
context_page_description: OTI Festival was an annual singing competition, held between 1972 and 2000 among active member countries of the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana. It was preceded in 1969 and 1970 by the Festival Mundial de la Canción Latina, held in Mexico.
  The festival was an Ibero-American spin-off of the Eurovision Song Contest. The first show was held in the Congress Palace of Madrid on November 25, 1972 and the last one was held on May 20, 2000 in Acapulco. Since then, the show was cancelled due to the questioning of the voting system of the last shows, the lack of sponsors, the low quality of the entrants and the withdrawal of some of the most iconic countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Spain.
  The main goal of the festival was to generate a process of cultural and artistic fellowship between the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. Although it was not as successful as the Eurovision Song Contest, the festival left a great mark in Latin America by giving many famous artists and hit songs.
  The OTI festival is to date, the longest running and most successful Eurovision Song Contest spin off with 28 editions.
caption: Map of the OTI Song Contest participating countries by number of victories
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