Márcio Bobik Braga

Simón Bolívar e o Congresso do Panamá: o primeiro integracionismo latino-americano

The earliest movement towards Latin American integration emerged in the context of the decolonization process to have begun in the 1820s, with the initiative driven by various leaders, particularly Simon Bolivar, culminating in the 1826 Congress of Panama. It was at the congress that plenipotentiary delegates from four Latin American countries developed the first integration treaties, with their provisions pre-empting the establishment of legal institutes of public international law. The agreements did not, however, enter into effect due to the lack of ratification. Based on a historical, juridical, and institutional analysis, this work resumes the debate on the subject, analyzing the relevant sources and proposing an explanation for the initiative’s relative failure.

Juan Bautista Alberdi: o pensamento econômico de um liberal latino-americano no século XIX

This article aims to highlight some of the major economic ideas of the nineteenth centurys Argentinian economist and thinker Juan Bautista Alberdi. This interpretation is based on two of his major works: Bases y Puntos de Partida para La Organizacion Politica de La Republica Argentina, originally written in 1852, and his posthumous Estudios Economicos, originally published in 1886. Juan Bautista Alberdi was a lawyer, writer, journalist and economist always concerned with the construction of the nationality of the region that would become Argentina in those early stages of capitalisms expansion that had England as its center of interest. Alberdi tried to understand his country from a liberal perspective, but with the local structures in mind. He defended, in the process, social and regional inclusion, a better power-sharing and a more equitable fiscal federalism for the region. He went far beyond the simple defense of international division of labor. If, at the beginning of his intellectual life, he presented himself as an optimistic thinker, with the course of events, particularly during the second half of the nineteenth century, he looked with distrust and pessimism at the liberalisms construction led by Buenos Aires.