Abstract
The article analyzes a range of issues related to the functioning of the new South American integration association PROSUR in its first year existence. It examines the reasons for its occurrence, being associated to the previous integration blocs’ difficulties and the Venezuelan political process. The article traces in detail the new association formative chronology. It analyzes PROSUR in the context of the “open regionalism” integration continuum development, being the Free Trade Area of the Americas (ALCA) its starting point. It has been hypothesized that PROSUR functionally plays the role of a political superstructure over the economic basis of this process. Within detailed analysis of the PROSUR organizational regulations, it establishes that this block has many similarities to the previous associations. It records that until now, the block “works” for the disaggregation of South America, rather than for its unification. The article is of polemical nature, being some aspects deliberately presented in a provocative way, in order to stimulate scientific discussion on the PROSUR geopolitical nature and its goals.
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