The Latin American integration in the 19th Century: Mercosul historical backgrounds

Abstract

Today, when one thinks about integration in Latin-America, immediately associated with the image of existing regional international organizations: Mercosur, Andean Pact, Central American Common Market. What happens is that the history of Latin-American integration is prior to those international organizations and born together with the ideal ofindependence the Latin-Americans countries, in 19th century. As seen in research, the ideas integrationists started with the search for political union between the countries of Latin-Americans and, only later, adopted economic prospects that currently defined.