Security & Strategic Review October 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Alan GarcÃa relaunches his scheme for a Pacific seaboard alliance
Peruvian president Alan GarcÃa has launched a new, slimmed-down but more ambitious version of the ‘Pacific Arc’ initiative he championed four years ago. He is proposing what he describes as an ‘in-depth integration agreement’ with Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama and an alternative to the ‘doomed’ existing integration mechanisms. As with his previous initiative, GarcÃa is seeking partners among the governments that are closest to the US. Brazil, meanwhile has signalled that it intends to press ahead with Mercosur (and with other ‘variable geometry’ initiatives).
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