Mauricio Macri goes to Chile to bury Unasur and go ahead with the creation of a new regional bloc

Next week Mauricio Macri will visit Chile attend the final burial of Unasur, this union of South American countries born under the fire of chavism and kirchnerism ten years ago to counter the United States. But in exchange, the Argentine president and 11 other regional leaders will seek to create Prosur, a new Latin American integration area that is more dynamic, less ideological and more pragmatic.

Macri will arrive in Santiago de Chile 22 for the meeting convened by President Sebastián Piñera with the idea of ​​launching Prosur. Until now, the visit of Macri and nine heads of state was confirmed. The idea was to reconcile a common document that included, among other things, solid questions for the Venezuelan regime while promoting issues of regional debate.

"There is a firm decision to create a new space for better integration in South America, certainly without the ideologies that have ruined Unasur and without prejudice to contributions that in some cases could leave this space at other times. ", did he declare. Infobae Argentina's ambbadador to Chile, José Octavio Bordón, who confirmed Macri's visit on March 22 to Chile.

On the eve of the Presidents' meeting in Chile, the Foreign Ministers will meet to try to process a document that must be signed by the heads of state and thus kick the Prosecutor.

For obvious reasons and open ideological differences, Venezuela was not invited to the event in Chile. Will there be a definitive burial but without tacitly mentioning the Unasur created at the time by Hugo Chavez, Lula Da Silva, Rafael Correa, Néstor Kirchner and Evo Morales, among others? other heads of state who constituted the so-called Bolivarian axis.

With the arrival of Macri in power, Argentina and other countries that have complied with the Unasur have decided to leave it and left temporarily this block without shouting. Strictly speaking, the creation of Prosur now, with another political orientation and very different objectives, will be the complete crystallization of the death of Unasur. In fact, this Bolivarian area has been without a general secretary since February 2017 because of the lack of will of the countries that made up Unasur.

Colombian President Iván Duque pointed out a few days ago: "We progressed at the end of Unasur and the creation of Prosurmore than a bureaucratic organization will be a South American body for the coordination of public policies, the defense of democracy, the separation of powers, the market economy, "he said.

The presidents of the Lima group have already raised this issue and recently called on the Nicolás Maduro regime to restore democracy in Venezuela and release political prisoners. Among the countries that would join Prosur are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Saint Lucia.

It is very likely that Macri will meet with Piñera alone two days before the meeting in Chile. It is that the next Argentine president will come to Buenos Aires on the 20th to participate in the summit of the South-South cooperation organized by the United Nations. In this context, it is expected that Macri and Piñera will meet separately to begin to define what will be the creation of Prosur.