In the late twentieth century, with economic liberalization and expansion of “spatial circuits of production” countries have been expanding, increasingly, their participation in international trade using regionalism as a mean to guard against international competitiveness. On the other hand, sharpened up the search for new markets and diversification of trade partners, in order to reduce risks from the crisis of demand. At this juncture, were the first steps of what would eventually Mercosur, which got major importance in trade balances of countries of the region. In turn, this ascendancy of intraregional trade transactions in recent decades, has revealed a mismatch between the growth in the flow of merchandise and insufficient infrastructure investments undertaken within the Southern Cone. Already when entering the twenty-first century, with the launch of IIRSA / COSIPLAN some old works proposed for the region would be made possible.
Mercosur; Infrastructure; Transport; Regional Integration; IIRSA/COSIPLAN
