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Latin America and the Caribbean: Integrated or Marginalized?
Regional integration has to do with understanding complementarity and working together, with shared visions and the ultimate goal of putting the welfare of populations before tensions and ideologies. The challenges of today's world, characterized by a broad interdependence, varied hubs of power and a restructuring of visions on how to combat new threats, which have features particular to the age, require Latin America to succeed in building shared strategic objectives so that its interests are heard in this reconfiguration of the world system. Latin America has not managed to establish this joint vision in regard to any of the major international actors; however, it should be emphasized that new ways of relating to them in a more horizontal manner have been developed with some degree of success. At the sub-regional level it is important to observe the creation of new integration mechanisms or processes that seek to adapt and respond to the current context. In spite of this, it would appear that, in terms of regional integration, Latin America has achieved little concrete progress, a tendency that the creation of new integration initiatives will not necessarily resolve.