by Giuseppe Lo Brutto and Carlos Otto Vázquez Salazar
The integration of Latin America and the Caribbean is a disputed process. In the new phase of integration represented by the Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América and the Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, the control of natural resources has acquired central importance in a global scenario characterized by hegemonic reconfiguration and a tendency toward the creation of a multipolar world. For the integration to be viable, it must overcome the extractivist model and establish new forms of state-society relations.
