EU–LAC Relations in the Context of NATO Geopolitics

Abstract

This analysis establishes how NATO geopolitics, operating as the strategic arm of US imperialism, constitutes the primary instrument that conditions relations between the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in the current global conjuncture. This dynamic forges an essential contradiction between the genuine interest in autonomous development and regional peace—materialized in the proclamation of CELAC as a Zone of Peace—and the logics of domination, resource diversion, and militarization driven by the core of global capitalism, led by the United States of America (US). This contradiction manifested itself at the IV EU–CELAC Summit, whose results reflect European subordination to the NATO agenda and its consequent inability to question US military intervention in the Caribbean or to transform the structural mechanisms—such as neocolonial trade agreements—that perpetuate asymmetry, economic reprimarization, and the technological dependence of LAC. Therefore, the viability of an emancipatory bi-regional partnership requires, as a sine qua non condition, that the EU change its historic neocolonialist approach toward LAC and distance itself from the harmful alliance to which it belongs: NATO, since its membership in this criminal organization only deprives the EU of the ability to dedicate resources to the development of its member states and the underdeveloped world—while harming the economy and social conditions of its own people.