Latin American trade bloc looks to expand influence amid challenges to globalization

VINA DEL MAR, CHILE – Pacific Alliance trade bloc countries – Mexico, Peru, Chile and Colombia – are aiming to bolster the deal's importance, counter anti-globalization trends and negotiate trade agreements as a group with other countries and trade blocs, Chilean foreign minister Heraldo Munoz said at a press conference here Tuesday following a ministerial meeting of the alliance. Munoz added that the Pacific Alliance would accept a new type of so-called associate member, according to an informal translation of...