The Pacific Alliance: situation, perspectives and consolidation proposals

Abstract

Latin America has been the object of many attempts at integration. Many of them failed from the start, while other lasted in time, although with little effectiveness. The Pacific Alliance is a new attempt at integration and has reached time a number of achievements and much progress in a very short time that have awaken the interest of the international community. Many would think that the initial enthusiasm for this process would end up by wreckage as it did in former occasions. However, the political will showed by the States that make up this new block, added to the endorsement of their business class, would seem to show the opposite.