Can There Be A Successful Pan-Latin American Movement Starting From The Cold War?

But not is that bad here in South America, we have our differences and disputes but our languague unites all of us, I don't see a full panlatinamerican movement, but maybe a hispanoamerican in the far future
 
But a thing that may fit the OP: There are two pan cultural movements in latin america, for Brazil we got the pan lusitans and for the rest of the continent we got the hispanists, the Hispanists want to unite the spanish latin america under their common spanish and native ancestry, while the lusitans want to unite brazil, angola, moçambique, timor, guine and the other portuguese colonies under their luso ancestry.

Well the Portuguese one is different. But regardless I’ve conceded on the idea that a United South America is possible. You’re right that the Spanish-speaking countries are more likely to be together.

Now a actual beneficial Alliance of mutual Defense Pacts is possible and Desirable by most nations in south America, but there is the Catch, the only countries that are a Threat to Countries in the Region are the countries in the Region. So How we make work a mutual defense pact between all the countries in the region when the most probable conflict are Peru-Ecuador, Colombia-Venezuela, Bolivia-Chile(as if Bolivia have a chance) or Argentina-Brasil(this one is pretty obvious in any futbol match XD)? i Mean mutual Defend against what outside the Region? Europe? China? Russia? USA?, well USA is the more probable, specially with Trump, but not likely.
And we have a lot of mutual Economics and Politics pacts

Mercosur
ALCA
ALBA
Pacto Andino
UNASUR
CELAC
SELA
RIO TREATY
ACTO
ECLAC,
CEPAL
Contador Group
Contadora support group

And i don´t count the Caribbean ones, if anything look like the countries want to cooperate, but don´t want to lose anything to anybody.
Did you know we dont have one or Two or Three but FOUR pan latin-american Parliaments? to bear 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_Parliament 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_Parliament 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur_Parliament 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_Parliament
And even then our lack of integration continues more or less the same? i mean Pan-american Highway don´t even include Brazi' the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway

Interesting but I was thinking like a movement to unite the Spanish-speaking countries into one country. Whether there can be a movement to get that through is the question. Like maybe revive Gran Colombia, unite the Southern Cone together, revive Peru-Bolivia, revive the Central American federation, etc. and unite them into one country.
 
Anyways I was wondering if during the Cold War there could be a successful movement that creates a unified Latin American state or tries to reach that goal as realistically as possible. Where could be the first starting point? How can such a nation hold together? And could it hold together?
The entire continent I think is way too large for what you seem to be after in my opinion so why not try something a bit smaller and more manageable like Central America? Start out with a mainly economic grouping coming together to try and boost their economies plus use their combined size in trade talks and the like, just as The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg did with the London Customs Convention. If able to keep the momentum going by continuing to break down internal barriers and people start seeing the benefits from it then they'd be more open to looking at political agreements.


In order to start something similar decades earlier, I think a POD should diminish the political influence of the militaries. Due their training and doctrines, Latin American armed forces often saw neighboring countries as potential enemies.
Alternatively they could be an advantage in that they're dictatorships. One of the blocks to organisations like Mercosur forming or its current ongoing operation is special interest groups or the need to court public opinion, not having to worry about elections potentially gives the military more of a free hand.


And we have a lot of mutual Economics and Politics pacts:

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That's great but how many actually work? Just looking at Mercosur it seems to have achieved a little but then stalled, or actually fallen back slightly, when national governments retreated into protectionism.
 
Alternatively they could be an advantage in that they're dictatorships. One of the blocks to organisations like Mercosur forming or its current ongoing operation is special interest groups or the need to court public opinion, not having to worry about elections potentially gives the military more of a free hand.
Useless if your generals have spent their last 20 years seeing the neighboring countries as the enemies they were preparing to go to war with eventually.
 
The entire continent I think is way too large for what you seem to be after in my opinion so why not try something a bit smaller and more manageable like Central America? Start out with a mainly economic grouping coming together to try and boost their economies plus use their combined size in trade talks and the like, just as The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg did with the London Customs Convention. If able to keep the momentum going by continuing to break down internal barriers and people start seeing the benefits from it then they'd be more open to looking at political agreements.



Alternatively they could be an advantage in that they're dictatorships. One of the blocks to organisations like Mercosur forming or its current ongoing operation is special interest groups or the need to court public opinion, not having to worry about elections potentially gives the military more of a free hand.



That's great but how many actually work? Just looking at Mercosur it seems to have achieved a little but then stalled, or actually fallen back slightly, when national governments retreated into protectionism.

There could be regional unification movements that eventually build-up into larger ones. I envision them being an anti-Capitalist, anti-US coalition that works beyond boundaries to ensure cooperation and survival. That’s honestly a scenario that’ll get most people to forget about their rivalries the most.
 
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