it means the ghost of Simon Bolivar will never die, and the ambition for the States of South America to act in concert for the benefit of the people continent will always remain, despite equally persistent attempts by the neighbour in the north to keep the south divided

Don't make me laugh dude. I've lived in Argentina for a decade (European here) and all Latinoamerica is broken by their society, their lack of self analysis, the populism and the short-terminism.

It's time to stop the old speech of "that far away evil empire destroyed us". It doesn't work anymore dude. Grow up.

Brazilian here. You are totally right.

You mean the seemingly incurable socialist ambition to turn South America into a modern day shittier version of the Soviet Union? Poor, undeveloped, unindustrialized, destroyed economy, worthless currency and with zero nukes to show for it.

You people have been blaming "US imperialism" for your economical problems for decades now when it's really the fundamentally broken ideology and corruption that's the problem. If anything, there isn't enough US imperialism here. Sometimes I wonder why the hell the US allows literal socialists to control significant portions of America.