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AQ Interview: Heraldo Muñoz

By Americas Quarterly

In an interview with Americas Quarterly, Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs Heraldo Muñoz describes Chile’s initiative to negotiate a closer relationship between the Pacific Alliance and Mercosur, and warns that a region divided by Atlantic vs. Pacific will weaken Latin America’s competitiveness.

AMERICAS QUARTERLY: What are Chile’s views on bringing together the Pacific Alliance and Mercosur?

HERALDO MUÑOZ: Chile has proposed and led an initiative to strengthen the different integration schemes of Latin America with the idea of improving consultation and dialogue—an effort we have called “convergence in diversity.” True, there are different economic models and ways of integrating into the global economy in the region, but that should not be an insurmountable obstacle to regional integration. Beginning in 2014, we proposed a dialogue between...

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