The Southern Common Market is a South American trade bloc established by the Treaty of Asunción in 1991 and Protocol of Ouro Preto in 1994. Its full members are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, a
Representatives of Argentina, Brazil and Chile at the Niagara Falls Peace Conference, where they mediated the Mexican revolutionary affair at the request of the United States, advocating the rise of the ABC countries, a political and economic pact among these three nations in 1915
First lifting headquarters of Mercosur in Montevideo (2001)
President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff hosting the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro during the XLVIII Mercosur meeting in 2015
Bolivian representative speaking to the Mercosur members
The European Union and the South American trade bloc Mercosur reached a free trade agreement in principle in 2019. The planned deal was announced on 28 June at the 2019 G20 Osaka summit after twenty y
Mercosur
…place pressure to negotiate a free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union and other Latin American nations. In June 2019, a deal for a European Union–Mercosur Free Trade Agreement was reached in principle, with final text to be negotiated. Negotiations concluded in December 2024, and the agreement proceeded towards ratification…
NASA FIRMS satellite observation of deforestation in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil. The transformation from forest to farm is evident by the paler square shaped areas under development.
A burning forest in Brazil
In June 2019, representatives of EU and Mercosur announced they had reached a historic agreement
Javier Milei and other Mercosur leaders with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the 65th Mercosur Summit in Montevideo, Uruguay, 5 December 2024