This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. The New World Report, my colleague, Professor Evan Ellis, the U.S. Army War College, Mexico City within these last days. In August reads the banner, very attractive. In August 2025, leaders from across the hemisphere will gather in Mexico City for the second annual Pan-America Congress.

Last year, it reads, Columbia and President Gustavo Petro inaugurated the Pan American Congress in Bogota,

convening eight delegations from across North and South America and the

Caribbean to discuss the themes of democracy, peace, and climate. From some of the attendance list,

Professor, this appears very much disposed towards that pink tide. Gathering in Mexico City is smart.

There were representatives from the U.S., members of Congress and political voices, very prominent.

This introduces the whole terminology, pan-Americanism.

What is it?

What was it?

Because my memory is that it was celebrated in the 19th century about McKinley's time.

Well, John, this is absolutely an enormous irony because what pandemic was once was certainly wasn't this.

But it's worth recalling it in the end of the 19th century. The United States

recently liberated from dependence on its colonial master in Great Britain and the states

of Latin America, many of which are recently liberated from colonization by the Spanish, looked to a solidarity in the Western

Hemisphere, the continents that we shared, saying that we in the Americas, needed to stick

together for economic and another development. And so the origin of what is today the entire

organization of American states, which for, you know,

partly those reasons was established in Washington, D.C. And really the entire inter-American

system was based on this idea that we, the United States, and these other nations of the

Americas, share a common spirit. That was arguably in a spirit that was, you know, certainly not to,

you know, not, you know, leftist oriented to the extent that left was understood back then.

But what you see with this Congress is that it, the use of the label Pan American was a way of including the U.S. left along with the

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