Trade and investment treaties have been signed en masse on a global scale over the past three decades, marking a particular form of economic insertion of Latin American and Caribbean countries in the world market.
By implying profound changes, and not only tariff and market access aspects, they have been consolidated as regulatory frameworks that make up a complex international legal architecture that reproduces the domination and geopolitically unequal relations that characterize the world today.
In this way, they support the profits of large corporations in the global North.