The Union of South American Nations, sometimes also referred to as the South American Union, abbreviated in Spanish as UNASUR and in Portuguese as UNASUL, is an intergovernmental regional organization
South American presidents gathered during an extraordinary meeting for the signing of the UNASUR Constitutive Treaty in May 2008 in Brasília
Néstor Kirchner, first Secretary General of UNASUR
Former headquarters of UNASUR
Ernesto Samper, the most recent Secretary General.
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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
Union of South American Nations
…until the United States' foreign policy priorities turned to other regions in the 2000s. The complete integration between the Andean Community and the Mercosur nations was formalized during the meeting of South American heads of state that took place on 23 May 2008 in Brasília. In the 2004 South American Summit…
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