A group of high-profile Latin American political leaders called on South America’s sitting presidents to reconstitute the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the regional integration body created in 2008 that suffered
a significant decline a decade later following rightward political shifts in several member-states.
The letter’s authors—which included seven former presidents, current and former parliamentarians, former
foreign ministers, and directors of international organizations, among others—made an urgent pitch to the region’s 12 political leaders to work toward integration in the face of a changing international climate.
“An integrated, non-aligned and peaceful Latin America will recover international prestige and will be able to overcome the irrelevance in which we find ourselves.” read the public letter published at the end of November.
The return of UNASUR?