Security & Strategic Review April 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)
‘Pacific Alliance’ and ‘OAS without US’ come onstage
The last week of April witnessed the emergence of two regional organisations in Latin America: the Alianza del PacÃfico (AP; Pacific Alliance), formed by four countries committed to free trade and enterprise, and the Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (Celac; Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), which includes all countries in the hemisphere save the US and Canada. Presidents Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela have figured prominently among those promoting these developments: the former in his bid to pull Colombia out of its long period of isolation, the latter seeking to prevent further deterioration of his country’s regional influence.
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