ABSTRACT
On 12 June 2013, the European Parliament’s news channel published a press release with a Eurobarometer update which stated that 62% of respondents held that freedom of movement would be the main achievement of the integration project developed by the European Union. Both news items contained some of the most widespread characteristics of the imaginary linked to borders: border disputes in Latin America. The regional imaginations around border dynamics were saturated with different angles and perspectives to incorporate integration projects in Latin America, involving the country embroiled in the border dispute over access to the sea with Chile. In the other side, Latin America is negatively portrayed from a time trap that identifies the region as backward, as laying behind Europe in a development timeline defined by modern geopolitical imagination. In the case of Latin America, the regional approach to borders would result in two issues: that border disputes are numerous and that they would easily evolve towards war.
