IV. CELAC as Multilateral Guarantor of a New Phase
The IX CELAC Summit, held on April 9, 2025, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, brought renewed attention to regional integration, trade asymmetries, and migration governance. It also marked the transition of the pro tempore presidency from Honduras to Colombia.
In this context, AURO stands as a timely and constructive framework to support CELAC’s long-term goals. The initiative could be formally introduced in future CELAC deliberations with support from multiple states seeking modernization, sovereignty, and balanced relations with external powers.
CELAC could act as observer, facilitator, or multilateral guarantor in AURO’s early stages, ensuring transparency, legality, and mutual benefit. Its participation would also lend legitimacy to a process that could become a model for U.S. engagement with the Global South.
In 2021, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated: “Latin America and the Caribbean must walk together. We must stop insisting on policies of exclusion.” AURO can respond to that call.
V. Renewed Integration, Shared Leadership.
CELAC is not an economic bloc like Mercosur, nor a disciplinary body like the OAS. It is a political dialogue platform where diverse governments converge in the pursuit of a balanced and sovereign hemisphere.
With emerging female leadership including Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico and Xiomara Castro in Honduras the region is offering a new cooperative and pluralistic vision. The United States must respond with strategic empathy and renewed foresight. AURO would not be a concession, but a liberal, historic, and necessary action to avoid marginalization in a hemisphere where other actors China, Russia, the EU are consolidating influence.
Conclusion
AURO and CELAC are not parallel tracks; they are converging vectors of a new hemispheric architecture. CELAC, with its regional legitimacy and inclusive vision, could be the platform through which the United States reengages constructively with Latin America and the Caribbean.
After the 2025 Honduras Summit, AURO should not be framed as a tactical exception, but as a strategic and structural shift, in line with global realities, enabling the U.S. to preserve its standing in a shared, competitive, and multipolar world.
Sincerely,
Horacio Jesús Téllez Oliva. HJTO
PhD in Physical Sciences
Email: Horacio.jesus@yahoo.es May 07, 2025. Charleroi, Belgium.