Public Opinion and Foreign Policy in Latin America: Perceptions, Interests and Priorities

The 2010-2011 biennium has been one of changes for the region, resulting from the challenges presented by the slow recovery of the world economy after the 2008-2009 crisis and the scourge of natural disasters, as well as political changes in some countries region of. These transformations, and the responses of each country to them, have marked the different currents that converge in a region, whose members have ceased to see each other, both from outside and from within, as a homogeneous group. The positions and strategies assumed in the face of changes in the world and the region cover a wide range of options, from Bolivarian socialism to economic liberalism, in such a way that Latin America today is a plural region with a complex, heterogeneous and variable map. , of alliances and mechanisms of political and economic coordination.