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[00:03:11] Thank you for staying with us. The great
[00:03:14] dream of Latin American integration is over.
[00:03:16] I'm not saying this because of the recent diplomatic clashes between Argentina and Brazil
[00:03:20] or between Mexico and
[00:03:22] Ecuador. I'm saying this because a new study by ECLAC, the Economic
[00:03:26] Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations,
[00:03:30] has just said publicly what many of us had been
[00:03:33] secretly suspecting: that
[00:03:36] despite many presidential
[00:03:39] summits and grand speeches predicting
[00:03:42] greater integration in Latin America, the region, instead of
[00:03:46] advancing in regional integration, is
[00:03:50] going backward. According to the study, interregional
[00:03:54] trade in Latin America, that is, trade between
[00:03:58] Latin American countries, fell from 21%
[00:04:02] of the region's total trade in
[00:04:04] 2008 to 14% in
[00:04:08] 2024. That is, only an average
[00:04:12] of 14% of the goods exported by Latin
[00:04:15] American countries go to other Latin American
[00:04:19] countries. Almost nothing. It is one of the lowest rates in the
[00:04:22] world, says the study. Comparatively, in
[00:04:25] Europe, the average trade between European
[00:04:29] countries is more than
[00:04:30] 60%.
[00:04:33] Latin American countries are increasingly dependent on their
[00:04:36] sales, their exports to the United States and China,
[00:04:40] and less and less on sales to their neighbors.
[00:04:44] And that's not good, says the study,
[00:04:47] because interregional trade helps
[00:04:51] to boost the economy because it represents
[00:04:55] an enormous market. That is, the
[00:04:58] study says that Latin America is a market of more than
[00:05:01] 660 million people with a combined
[00:05:05] gross product of 6.8 trillion
[00:05:08] dollars. And why waste
[00:05:11] that? And at the same time, it's good to
[00:05:14] diversify export markets, says the study, not
[00:05:18] to depend solely on the United States or solely on China, in order
[00:05:22] to be less vulnerable to external shocks, as is currently happening
[00:05:25] to Mexico, for example, with President Trump's tariffs
[00:05:29] or with President Trump's threats not
[00:05:32] to renew trade agreements. What
[00:05:36] to do then? Well, the interesting thing about this
[00:05:39] new ECLAC study co-chaired
[00:05:41] by the former leftist president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet,
[00:05:45] and the former right-wing president of Colombia, Iván
[00:05:48] Duque, is that it says, more or less,
[00:05:51] that grand presidential
[00:05:55] summits have not served much purpose and that it is
[00:05:58] time to form flexible coalitions to
[00:06:02] achieve concrete agreements in specific areas. In other
[00:06:05] words, fewer grandiloquent speeches about the great
[00:06:09] homeland and all that, and more secret agreements
[00:06:12] that facilitate exporting
[00:06:15] screws or chickens or televisions or whatever to
[00:06:19] neighboring countries. I always remember what a Guatemalan
[00:06:22] businessman once told me,
[00:06:25] that there was so much paperwork in
[00:06:29] Central America to export from one country to another that he found it
[00:06:32] easier to export chicken meat from
[00:06:35] Guatemala to China than from Guatemala to El
[00:06:37] Salvador.
[00:06:40] A few years ago I wrote a book
[00:06:43] called The United States of Latin
[00:06:47] America. There I said that Latin America always tried to do
[00:06:50] integration in reverse, from top down, with
[00:06:54] presidents meeting, grand summits, grand final
[00:06:57] declarations, grand, super ambitious agreements, and then
[00:07:01] leaving the concrete details for the future. In
[00:07:04] Europe, they did exactly the
[00:07:06] opposite. What is today the European Union, the
[00:07:10] 27 countries of the European Union,
[00:07:12] was born in 1951 as a treaty covering two
[00:07:16] products, coal and steel,
[00:07:19] and then over the years they kept adding more and more
[00:07:22] products, until after many decades creating a
[00:07:26] common European market, that is,
[00:07:29] they built integration from the bottom
[00:07:32] up. In Latin America we started with
[00:07:36] poetry and left the concrete things for later, and that
[00:07:40] later never comes. It's good that
[00:07:43] after so many years this new ECLAC document
[00:07:47] proposes fewer ambitious speeches and more
[00:07:50] concrete and "boring" agreements, as the
[00:07:54] executive secretary of ECLAC calls them. Yes, agreements on screws, on chicken,
[00:07:58] on cars or whatever, because this data on the
[00:08:01] fall of interregional trade to 14%
[00:08:04] of total trade should be a wake-up call for
[00:08:08] all countries, because it is obvious that we must
[00:08:11] into the global economy, it is obvious that we must export to
[00:08:15] the United States and China, we must not stop
[00:08:18] doing that, but we must not lose sight of this enormous Latin American
[00:08:22] market of more than 660
[00:08:26] million people. Well, we've run out of time for
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