Mexico and Brazil: two extremes of an idea

• Autor(a) principal: Antiquera, Daniel
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/2163
• topic: Latin América; Foreign Affairs; América Latina; Políticas externas

This article questions the real strength Latin America had and has had in the formation of its States and shows that the sense of unity is more a consequence of dependence than a project of its own. It analyzes the regional attempts of integration, the evolution of external politics in Mexico and Brazil and it attempts to identify likely trends (and difficulties) for the formulation of a joint project. The choice upon these two countries is due to the fact that they represent the extremes of this American continent. This study reveals that Latin America, as a political project, has always been more distant from reality than the discourses may show. Such account has become even more abstract and superficial from the decade of 1990 on.