Integration and identity as latin america development strategy

Abstract

Th is paper discusses the importance of integration and identity as country strategies to promote better ways to market their products and sales of services to those involved in partnerships for generating complementary methods in common markets. Countries, especially those with weaknesses in meeting needs have sought ways associative integration, through the simple bilateral agreements, to the formation of economic communities, characterized by monetary integration, fi scal, labor, tariff , etc. In Latin America it is common to fi nd a number of economic agreements signed between countries, such as the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), Group of Th ree (Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela), CARICOM, which is a common trade agreement Caribbean. All these arrangements are designed to facilitate exchanges that make them viable complementary processes for generating default tariff markets