A critical analysis of the relations between the European Union, Latin America and Caribbean. This article aims to explicit the "strategic association" between those partners, proposed in Rio de Janeiro, in 1999, and reiterated by the Vienna Summit in 2006. The text also intends to demonstrate why these meetings failed to foster an effective approximation.
Strategic association; European Union; Latin America; Caribbean; Mercosul; Integration; Bi-regional Relations and Distributive Justice