“The northern winds do not move mills”: the rethinking of latin american integration based on the critique of imperialism

Abstract

An analysis of the experiences of regional and subregional integration in Latin America points to issues such as the difficulty of practicing continuous and coherent integration processes, the predominance of an economic axis over a political axis and the need to rethink them from the periphery of global capitalism. The concept of imperialism, which synthesizes the asymmetrical relations of domination and dependence between States, allows to problematize the character of the integration processes that occurred, as well as the lack of an adequate articulation of both referred axis. Considering that, it is questioned: how did the integration processes in Latin America occur in practice? How does the critique of imperialism help to rethink integration in the region? In order to answer these questions, it is used the historical-dialectical materialist approach method, the historical method of procedure and the bibliographic and documentary research techniques. The general objective is to rethink regional integration in Latin America based on the critique of imperialism.