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PUKO was founded on October 1, 1975. The founding countries were Argentina, Bermuda, Canada, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, the USA and Venezuela. The Congress approved the organization of the first Pan-American Championship in Curacao.
It was during the Pan-American Championship of 1995 in Medellín that the new Statutes of the PUKO were approved and at the same time change the name of the organization was changed to Panamerican Karate Federation (P.K.F.).