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Following in the footsteps of my previous map of a possible althist scenario of an La Platan state that managed to keep it's viceroyal territories and somehow didn't chronically choke and die during the great depression, I present a totally-not-EU rip off in the form of the Latin American Community of Nations. I've always wondered why, even through the quite horrid relations, the Spanish colonial states never attempted to form a "Spanish Commonwealth", or why nationalism so quickly dismantled Bolivar's ideals, or why no NATO or equivalent pact had truly managed to unite the nations. (One such organisation might exist and I may just be a fuckin' idiot, tbh - tho the only possible OTL contender I could imagine, Mercosur, appears to be imploding rn). As such, here is a picture (since it's more infobar than map) demonstrating such an organisation, with the reasoning being that a stronger Latin America via the presence of a stronger regional power in the form of Argentina demanded a unilateral sphere of influence per it's position on the world stage.

Over the course of the Second World War, the South American Ordnance Union, an organisation founded by Latin American nations involved in economic support to the Allied war effort, rekindled talks of a international polity between the South American Nations, after the rather successful demonstration of what such co-operation could achieve through the Ordnance Union. Under the convincing and later supervision of NATO, a US led organisation of aligned states, the first congress of the Latin American Community of Nations was held in Lima in the late fall of 1949. Originally intended to function as an extension of NATO influence against the eastern block, as the nations already fell under the American Sphere of Influence, the LACN, whilst at first proving to be co-operative, wasn't as controllable as the disunited nations were in the past. Though too politically weak to project power, or to even prevent communist influence in the form of the Central American Soviet-backed risings and the suspicious resurgence of the more radical Colorados party in Peru and the Argentine Republic, the union managed to (relatively) quickly form a joint market, military and border agreement discussion throughout it's member states. Originally only led by the Argentine Republic, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador and Venezuela, expansions in 1952 expanded membership to the Central American region, Mexico, and the Caribbean- though the 1953 Cuban Revolution lead to the dismissal of Cuba from the Union, under considerable American Pressure.

Though in modern times the Union serves as a national block cordially aligned with the other Western countries, the Cold War paranoia often drew the NATO block against it's Latin American ally, especially after the gradually socialisation of the Cisplatinate and the election of the Colorados and Colorado-aligned parties in Montevideo and Lima. This lead to the US often working against the LACN when not aligned against the Soviet threat, as seen in the US support of right-leaning politicians across the union, favourable agreements with Brazil- then rival of the Argentine Republic though ally of NATO, and even the safeguarding "peace keeping" coup of Panama and it's canal territory, to keep the valuable canal [i]strictly[/i] in US control- forcing Panama to suspend it's membership from the organisation which- to this day, hasn't been restored.

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Following in the footsteps of my previous map of a possible althist scenario of an La Platan state that managed to keep it's viceroyal territories and somehow didn't chronically choke and die during the great depression, I present a totally-not-EU rip off in the form of the Latin American Community of Nations. I've always wondered why, even through the quite horrid relations, the Spanish colonial states never attempted to form a "Spanish Commonwealth", or why nationalism so quickly dismantled Bolivar's ideals, or why no NATO or equivalent pact had truly managed to unite the nations. (One such organisation might exist and I may just be a fuckin' idiot, tbh - tho the only possible OTL contender I could imagine, Mercosur, appears to be imploding rn). As such, here is a picture (since it's more infobar than map) demonstrating such an organisation, with the reasoning being that a stronger Latin America via the presence of a stronger regional power in the form of Argentina demanded a unilateral sphere of influence per it's position on the world stage.

Over the course of the Second World War, the South American Ordnance Union, an organisation founded by Latin American nations involved in economic support to the Allied war effort, rekindled talks of a international polity between the South American Nations, after the rather successful demonstration of what such co-operation could achieve through the Ordnance Union. Under the convincing and later supervision of NATO, a US led organisation of aligned states, the first congress of the Latin American Community of Nations was held in Lima in the late fall of 1949. Originally intended to function as an extension of NATO influence against the eastern block, as the nations already fell under the American Sphere of Influence, the LACN, whilst at first proving to be co-operative, wasn't as controllable as the disunited nations were in the past. Though too politically weak to project power, or to even prevent communist influence in the form of the Central American Soviet-backed risings and the suspicious resurgence of the more radical Colorados party in Peru and the Argentine Republic, the union managed to (relatively) quickly form a joint market, military and border agreement discussion throughout it's member states. Originally only led by the Argentine Republic, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador and Venezuela, expansions in 1952 expanded membership to the Central American region, Mexico, and the Caribbean- though the 1953 Cuban Revolution lead to the dismissal of Cuba from the Union, under considerable American Pressure.

Though in modern times the Union serves as a national block cordially aligned with the other Western countries, the Cold War paranoia often drew the NATO block against it's Latin American ally, especially after the gradually socialisation of the Cisplatinate and the election of the Colorados and Colorado-aligned parties in Montevideo and Lima. This lead to the US often working against the LACN when not aligned against the Soviet threat, as seen in the US support of right-leaning politicians across the union, favourable agreements with Brazil- then rival of the Argentine Republic though ally of NATO, and even the safeguarding "peace keeping" coup of Panama and it's canal territory, to keep the valuable canal [i]strictly[/i] in US control- forcing Panama to suspend it's membership from the organisation which- to this day, hasn't been restored.