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How has Latin American and Caribbean unity been strengthened?

How has Latin American and Caribbean unity been strengthened?
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June 22 |

This Thursday, June 22, marks a new anniversary of the Day of Latin American and Caribbean Unity, and is received with renewed encouragement after the electoral triumph of progressive options that promote the integration of the region and the consolidation of initiatives that work towards this goal.

It was in 2001 when the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino) decreed that the Day of Latin American and Caribbean Unity be celebrated every June 22, the date on which the Amphictyonic Congress was installed in 1826.

The Amphictyonic Congress, installed on June 22, 1826 in the city of Panama, responded to the dreams of integration that the Liberator Simón Bolívar had and whose objective was to collaborate in the consolidation of the unity of the new republics, creating a confederation of the Ibero-American peoples from Mexico to Chile and Argentina.

In recent years, progressive options in the subcontinent have won elections to establish integrationist governments, examples of which are Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Chile, Honduras and most recently Colombia, which has been governed since August 2022 by the leftist Gustavo Petro.

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After Petro’s victory in the second round of elections held on June 19, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), stated that his arrival marked the beginning of “a new stage” in the Latin American and Caribbean region.

He also recalled that “when we arrived (in 2018) there were few countries with progressive governments. From our arrival a new stage began and there began to be important triumphs,” he said in reference to Petro’s victory.

Latin America saw an increase in the number of progressive administrations at the end of 2022, with the victory of leftist Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, who defeated the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.

Another recent moment of consolidation of regional integration occurred within the framework of the IX Summit of the Americas, held in June 2022 in the city of Los Angeles, California, which had the characteristic that the host country, the United States (US), excluded the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

After learning of this decision, Mexican President López Obrador, and others such as those of Honduras, Argentina and Bolivia, among others, conditioned their presence in the continental conclave to the participation of the leaders of the excluded nations.

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