The famous attempt of the Latin American Union also failed

First look at Latin American Unionthe gathering of so many countries with the same origin, the Spanish language, similar customs and the Christian religion, Simón Bolívar said in Letter from Jamaica dated September 6, 1815. however the original idea came from Venezuelan hero Francisco de Mirandawho years before proposed the creation of a great nation whose extension would include everything that exists Hispanic America.

Bolívar said “… to have one government that would confederate the different states that will be formed; […] What BThis would mean that the Isthmus of Panama was the same as Corinth for us for the Greeks! Let us hope that one day we shall have the good fortune to set up there an August congress of representatives of republics, kingdoms and empires to treat and discuss high interests peace and war with the peoples of the other three parts of the world. This type of corporation may occur at some happy time of our regeneration…”

Almost a decade later, the mentioned congress was held invited Simón Bolívar, from Lima, December 7, 1824 – two days before the Battle of Ayacucho – in the first appeal addressed to the governments Colombia, Mexico, United Provinces of Río de la Plata, Central America, Peru, Chile and Brazil. After that, the invitation to the Congress was extended to several more countries: the three powers outside region – Great Britain, the United States and the Netherlands – and, of late, Bolivia.

He The congress is being held in Panama, given the “non-fictionalist” invitation” – the concept of an ancient Greek word referring to delegates or representatives of an assembly – and whose city was located “equidistant from the edges” of the American continent. After countless obstacles, Amphictyonic Congress in Panama in the chapter of the monastery San Francisco in Panama City between June 22 and July 15, 1826, which is now called the Salón Bolívar and which keeps historical testimonies and other relics of such a great event.

Geopolitical scenario before, during and after celebration of the Bolivarian Congress it was very difficult for them America recently emancipated from Spanish colonialism. The latent threat of the Holy Alliance of Europe to conquer again

independent territories, British intervention in the Caribbean (the greatest military power of that time), the the misleading and newly declared “Monroe Doctrine” of the United States, in favor of their own hegemonic interests, and conflicts and territorial and political differences within the recent Latin American nations, finished off the primary intention Congress, to consolidate “a single Latin American nation”.

Simón Bolívar himself considered Amphictyonic congress a failed experience, the conclusion reached by the Liberator shortly after the end of the sessions, stating that “the Congress of Panama will be only a shadow”. The statement made by the Liberator, regarding the fact that “ NOW they seem destined by providence to inflict misery on America in the name of liberty.”

In short, the practical results of the Bolivarian areopagus were almost non-existent, they were only used by visionary ideasproposed documents, and precursors of international law. Many of these ideas were precursors organizations such as the OAS and the United Nations.

The Amphictyonic Congress in Panama in 1826 goes down in history as the first attempt to The Latin American Union, failed and glorious.