Expectations should be tempered with respect to what CELAC will achieve in the coming future, but nobody should think that it won’t achieve anything at all either.
Latin America has struggled to free itself from the Mafia don to the north for a long time, in fits and spurts, as you well describe. In this struggle, they have always been plagued by setbacks: quisling collaborationist governments and outright Yankee intervetions. What may finally end the cycle of domination will be The Empire's inevitable decline, especially if accelerated by the dollar's demotion from being the world's reserve currency Watching this begin to happen in real time is fascinating.
Latin America has struggled to free itself from the Mafia don to the north for a long time, in fits and spurts, as you well describe. In this struggle, they have always been plagued by setbacks: quisling collaborationist governments and outright Yankee intervetions. What may finally end the cycle of domination will be The Empire's inevitable decline, especially if accelerated by the dollar's demotion from being the world's reserve currency Watching this begin to happen in real time is fascinating.