The main challenge of Latin American higher education institutions is to promote new and better strategies for cooperation, internationalization and university quality, expressing from their identity the mission of doing with other actors, relocating their role as social actors and contributing to reduce the gap between countries. in terms of development. The internationalization of extension services presents the challenge of designing strategies and actions that integrate extension as an exceptional function of the university within the internationalization of higher education institutions. Multiple concepts are associated with the term "extension" and its consideration is somewhat ambiguous.