O velho regionalismo da Cepal

Abstract

This paper consists in systematizing the context and content of the central propositions on regional economic integration disseminated by ECLAC in the 1950s. Accordingly, an explanatory gap was identified between the theory and practice of the old regionalism in Latin America. Thus, through a review of the documents, literature and discourse exposicion, it was concluded that the ECLAC acted strategically aiming the following objectives: recapture the growth rate of industrialization before the 1955 crisis; attenuate Latin American external vulnerability and change the region's international insertion in the International Labour Division. However, its result was a free trade zone represented by the Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA).