The EU-CELAC Summit in Brussels: New Horizons or New Geopolitical Schemes?

... projects to the detriment of others. The most dynamic of them today is the Pacific Alliance (PA) established in 2013, and its members are Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru [1] . In contrast to Mercosur with its informal leadership of Brazil, membership for Venezuela and strong Latin American ideological values, the Pacific Alliance is more focused on economic and trade cooperation as well as on liberal values, although all its member states are members of UNASUR, CELAC and SADC as well. The US is trying to use the competition between the two integration models within a single region to strike a blow at Mercosur and indirectly at Brazil as the leader of the region-wide processes. Another goal of Washington’s ...