Associate Professor at the Latin American Institute of Economics, Society and Politics, UNILA (Brazil). PHd in Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - EHESS (Paris).
Around 80% of Mexico's exports continue to go to the United States, a proportion that remains the same as a decade ago. However, this dynamic does not reflect the reality of the rest of Latin America and is creating a gap between the north and the south of the region.
The region has great potential to produce green hydrogen but lacks regulation, investments, certifications, infrastructure and export capacity, among other elements.
The 'Sur' would be an accounting instrument rather than a tangible currency. It would therefore be an index whose value would always be different from that of its component currencies and would be calculated based on a basket of the same currencies and/or commodities.
In times of climate change, lithium is a real and cheap alternative to fossil fuels. Countries such as Bolivia or Mexico, with large salt deposits, have great possibilities to position themselves strategically on the global chessboard.
In the short term and at the micro level there will be generalized increases in inflation. However, in the long term and at the macro level, our region will once again become geopolitically bullish.
