Pacific Alliance

• Friday, October 31st 2014 - 08:27 UTC

  Pacific Alliance and Mercosur begin round of ministerial informative meetings

  

  The Pacific Alliance and Mercosur will be holding a two-day ministerial informative meeting in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, beginning this Friday, a first approach to a possible convergence of the two groupings, according to official releases.

• Thursday, October 30th 2014 - 10:53 UTC

  Looking to “Doing Business” in Latam, try the Pacific Alliance, forget Mercosur

  

  The World Bank's “Doing Business” global rating is not very enthusiastic about Latin American and the Caribbean which only first surfaces in position 34 out of the 189 countries considered.

• Friday, October 24th 2014 - 20:13 UTC

  Pacific Alliance and Mercosur have “a shared vision of regional integration”

  

  Pacific Alliance and Mercosur country members will be holding a meeting in Colombia “to plan the productive future of Latin America with a shared vision” announced Mexico's minister of economy Ildefonso Guajardo.

• Thursday, October 23rd 2014 - 05:52 UTC

  Neves wants Brazil to have the Pacific Alliance as an integration reference

  

  Brazilian presidential opposition candidate Aecio Neves insisted that if elected he will review Mercosur rules and make them “more flexible” so that the country can reach bilateral agreements with third parties and not limited by the consensus clause of the trade block. He also mentioned the Pacific Alliance as a pragmatic integration reference.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 08:53 UTC

  Chile convinced of the Mercosur/Pacific Alliance 'convergence' led by Brazil

  

  Chile is confident that in coming months there will be 'significant' advances in a convergence of the Pacific Alliance and Mercosur, said Andres Rebolledo, Chile's Deputy Trade minister during a visit to Brazil.

• Saturday, October 4th 2014 - 08:25 UTC

  Pacific Alliance and Mercosur will attempt convergence, sponsored by Chile

  

  A first meeting to assess opportunities for accords between the Alliance of the Pacific and Mercosur will take place next November in Santiago de Chile confirmed, confirmed Chilean foreign minister Heraldo Muñoz.

• Friday, September 26th 2014 - 06:03 UTC

  Pacific alliance anticipates incorporation of new full members in the near future

  

  In the near future the number of full members belonging to the Alliance of the Pacific will increase, but the block will continue with its realistic and pragmatic approach with no intent of a political group, said Peruvian president Ollanta Humala next to his peers from Chile, Colombia and Mexico, in New York, during a meeting hosted by Bloomberg.

• Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 05:28 UTC

  Mercosur/Pacific Alliance foreign ministers plan to meet in Chile in November

  

  Foreign affairs ministers from Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance will be meeting next 24 November in Santiago de Chile to explore a possible integration between the two blocks according to Paraguay's foreign minister Eladio Loizaga.

• Saturday, August 30th 2014 - 07:00 UTC

  Mercosur is a ‘success’; intra-trade has grown at double the world rate

  

  Mercosur is a success, intra-trade has expanded at double the rate of world trade and despite all the bad press, the block is advancing on other fields such as social affairs and citizenship, according to Ivan Ramalho, Mercosur's High Representative, who is a former Brazilian deputy minister of trade and development issues.

• Wednesday, August 27th 2014 - 02:51 UTC

  Chile ready to act as a 'bridge' between Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance

  

  Chile is ready to act as a 'bridge' between Mercosur and the Alliance of the Pacific so that Latin American can have a greater presence in the world state, said Chilean Deputy foreign minister Edgardo Riveros during a conference in Sao Paulo at the Lula da Silva think-tank.