Resumen

VARGAS, María del Rosío. La integración energética en América del Sur: la iniciativa de Petroamérica. Latinoamérica [online]. 2005, n.40, pp.265-288. ISSN 2448-6914.

This article tries to outline the energy integration process in South America, its main features and flaws. From this analysis arises what seems to be a new paradigm for the energetic issue that questions the implementation of full-fledged neoliberalism in the region. Within this unusual new “consensus” comes up the idea of the strengthening, in a market context, the energetic companies when that a public interest exists. As part of this process, from Venezuela sprung up Petroamérica, which pursues the creation of a transnational company that integrates top energy public companies, such as PDVESA, ENARSA, and Petrobras, while the President Hugo Chavez’s international petroleum policy is heading toward Central and South America and the Caribbean as energetic cooperation agreements; that suggests a wider geopolitical strategy regarding Bolivar’s project itself.

Palabras llave : Energy integration; Petroamérica; George W. Bush’s energy strategy.