United States of South America 1280334 197680762 2008-03-12T09:05:18Z SmackBot 433328 Date the maintenance tags or general fixes {{Disputed|date=March 2008}} The '''United States of South America''' is a political term and a state proposed by [[Simón Bolivar]] that was meant to include all the territories liberated by him and [[José de San Martín]]. The term has recently resurged as the result of South American integration, such as the merging of [[Mercosur]] and [[Andean Community of Nations|CAN]]. ==Proposed State== At the end of the [[South American Wars of Independence| Wars of Independence]], fought in the [[1810]]s and [[1820]]s by the colonies of [[Spain]] in [[South America]], several sovereign nations arose on the [[continent]]. The notion of closer hemispheric union in the Americas was first put forward by the Liberator [[Simón Bolívar]] who, at the [[1826]] [[Congress of Panama]], proposed creating a Confederation of [[Latin America]]n republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. This meeting was attended by representatives of [[Republic of Gran Colombia|Gran Colombia]] (comprising the modern-day nations of [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], [[Panama]], and [[Venezuela]]), [[Peru]], the [[United States of Central America|United Provinces of Central America]], and [[Mexico]], but the grandly titled "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation" was ultimately only ratified by Gran Colombia. Bolívar's dream soon floundered irretrievably with civil war in Gran Colombia, the disintegration of Central America, and the emergence of national rather than continental outlooks in the newly independent American republics. The proposed confederation has never been realized. In the [[Cuzco Declaration]] of 2004, the South American countries said that by creating the [[Union of South American Nations]] they would try to partially realize Bolívar's dream of uniting Latin America. Some other names proposed for this new Community of Nations was [[Unión de Sudamérica]] (Union of South America) whose abbreviations in Spanish (and English) were USA, and ''United States of South América''. ==See also== *[[Union of South American Nations]] *[[Simón Bolívar]] *[[South American Wars of Independence]] *[[United States of Central America]] *[[United States (disambiguation)]] *[[United Provinces of the River Plate|United Provinces of South America]] [[Category:History of South America]] {{politics-stub}}