Pacific Alliance, under Chilean presidency will speed closer links with Mercosur

Wednesday, June 29th 2016 - 05:12 UTC

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The Pacific Alliance under the helm of Chile, beginning next July first will reach out for closer links with Mercosur, particularly since Argentina's decision to join the block as an observer. “The Argentine decision to join the Pacific Alliance as an observer fully harmonizes with Chile's strategy of making both blocks converge”, according to Andres Rebolledo, head of Chile's Directorate of International Economic Relations. Read full article

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Marti Llazo
“....under chilean presidency...”

This presidency which is running about 22 percent approval and 70 percent disapproval in internal surveys, the worst of any CL president since the return to democracy. And it shows.
Jun 29th, 2016 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ManRod
Marti, fully agree... nothing against integrating an open-world minded Argentina led under Macri into the PA, but what when he leaves? Argentina does not show any signs of changing their idiosyncrasy of bipolarity. One day they are Rockefellers, in 4 years they turn into Stalin loving marxists...
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Marti Llazo
@2 Correct. Although bipolarity might be one of the more charitable expressions.

We note that the Macri government is removing the portrait of Che Guevara from the Pink House, where the Kirchner government had included it in the gallery of “Latinamerican Patriots.”
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