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The proposal, announced via social media on Saturday, comes just one week after the United States military captured former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Petro’s vision seeks to revive the 19th-century state — which comprised modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela — as a defensive and economic bloc, a move critics view as a populist strategic pivot amid heightened regional tensions and U.S. interventionism.

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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe don't name the whole union as one of the countries? Terrible optics for all the rest of the countries involved.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's named after the country the modern nation of Colombia is named after

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

It's still a bad choice. Maybe choose a pre-colonial name, or something new.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

And I wonder who he thinks would lead this new political entity.

I am all in favor of countries banding together to create more powerful bargaining units and helping to stabilize economies in their regions, I just wonder how well it would work when ALL countries involved are unstable economically and politically. It's one thing for the EU to be created with Latvia, Romania, and Bulgaria when you have France, Germany, and England to stabilize things. It's another thing for countries that have all had major issues with stability in both recent years and consistently in the past 30 years to try coming together.

Maybe that instability is partly due to US interference that this will help prevent in the future? Maybe it would help reduce the violence from drug cartels, which could stabilize the region as well?