With Argentina and Brazil opposing the Venezuelan Mercosur presidency, as well as severe economic problems facing the region, hope for a genuinely progressive Mercosur looks increasingly threatened.
Marcelo Montes
, professor of international relations at the National University of Villa Maria in Argentina,...
... Latin-Caribbean bloc by promoting certain Latin American integration 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
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. 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 ...