MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Bolivia will hold double membership of Mercosur and the Andean Community
Bolivia will join Mercosur without abandoning the Andean Community and will continue with negotiations for a cooperation and trade agreement with the European Union, announced in La Paz the Foreign ministers from Bolivia, David Choquehuanca and Luis Almagro from Uruguay which currently holds the group’s chair. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCAN us pretty much dead and being slowly incorporated into or subsumed or overtaken by the Pacific Alliance.
Jun 24th, 2013 - 05:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Colombia and Peru are putting all their efforts into bilateral trade agreements and also the Pacific Alliance.
Ecuador and Bolivia are probably going to be quite welcome to continue CAN membership with concurrent Mercosur membership simply because CAN will be kept around as a talking shop to further expand Colombia's and Peru's growth and free trade agenda.
The Pacific Alliance is much less structured and strict than Mercosur. It's a bottom up group and not a top down one like the EU or Mercosur.
Can Bolivia become a member of Mercosur without Paraguay's agreement?
Jun 24th, 2013 - 09:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thought not.
So it looks like another illegal entry into Mercosur, making it even more redundant as they won't even follow their own rules.#
No one in their right mind would do business with Mercosur.
They can do as they please when rules and law are insignificant burdens of technicalities.
Jun 24th, 2013 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0So I guess that countries can be members of both Mercosur and ALBA, Mercosur and CAN, Mercosur and the North American free trade area, etc, etc. It's 'easy' when all the nations are members of the OAS, but how do you do business with the rest of the world.
Jun 24th, 2013 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It can lead to SERIOUS HAIR LOSS.
Just how you disentangle the gordian knots of conflicting agreements and associations to make anything actually happen just boggles my imagination, but then, I like things simple!
Hmmm, maybe I'm just not as much in tune with Latin America as I thought I was.
(4) GeoffWard2
Jun 24th, 2013 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say....:
“Hmmm, maybe I'm just not as much in tune with Latin America as I thought I was.”
I say...:
Quite a positive step in your Latin American self-discovery journey, Geoff.....
Continue the good work....
:)
Jun 25th, 2013 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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