The proposal, announced via social media on Saturday, comes just one week after the United States military captured former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Petro’s vision seeks to revive the 19th-century state — which comprised modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela — as a defensive and economic bloc, a move critics view as a populist strategic pivot amid heightened regional tensions and U.S. interventionism.
It’s more like Italy forming a Mediterranean league called the Roman Alliance. Or the US forming the American Union with Canada and Mexico.
I’m not saying the other countries should just take it or leave it, just thst outsiders shouldn’t assume they’ll be mad at the name