Integration has never been so necessary as now and we have never been so disintegrated, he added.
Ernesto Samper, former president of Colombia, stressed that the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) has not ended and rather reported that the body will have a temporary headquarters in Buenos Aires – Argentina.
He stated that at the moment they are working on a process of coexistence to analyze the possibility that the ten subregional organizations unite without the intervention of the United States.
“In order to organize a new body that could be a new Celac (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States).”
He said he remembered with personal nostalgia the role that Unasur managed to achieve during the time he presided over it, since in two and a half years more than 100,000 people passed through the headquarters located in Ecuador.
“He had the work of 23 groups with the management of agendas, it was a kind of small European Union in which permanent meetings were held with the South American Council of Health, Education, anti-drug policy and alternative policies.”
He pointed out that at that time the region showed its ability to integrate and therefore regretted that this effort ended with the abrupt decision of the Lenín Moreno government to remove Unasur from Ecuador, a country that was the capital of Latin American integration.
“Integration has never been so necessary as now and we have never been so disintegrated,” he added.
He stressed that the only alternative that the region has to get out of the post-pandemic is to return to itself: “And do more trade with each other, build roads that unite us.”
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