In the last decade, Latin America has experienced new initiatives of regional integration in parallel to the resumption of
previous processes. In this context, there is a reinforcement of the cult of Simón Bolívar, so that some bring up the
concept of neo-Bolivarianism to define this historical link constructed to endorse the ideal of emancipation. How the
idea of appropriation of Bolívar is related to the plural levels of integration that are observed today in Latin America?
Essentially based on a constructivist approach, we will seek to examine, on the one hand, how a collective identity
among states can emerge endogenously, and on the other how exogenous influences, especially from United States and
Europe (and their corresponding cases of integration, NAFTA and the EU) contribute to the construction of the ideas
that drive the integration of Latin America. Emphasizing the interactive process by which ideas are transmitted through
discourse, our research should pay particular attention to the role of epistemic communities and that of the national
leaders in building political ideas that date back to the Bolivarian project of emancipation through union. The
investigation will also scrutinize the teleological conflicts that are naturally settled on the framework of an integration
between countries with various geographical, economic and political proportions, with the aim of discussing how these
different visions of Latin America relate to the concept of political community