Their host president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is calling for more unity and even a new single currency.

So, what are his plans and could they become reality?

And what’s bringing these countries together now?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Temir Porras Ponceleon – Managing director of Global Sovereign Advisory; former deputy minister and senior aide to Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and President Nicolas Maduro’s chief of staff

Guillaume Long – Senior analyst at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and former foreign minister of Ecuador

Danny Shaw – Professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies at City University of New York; international affairs analyst for TV network TeleSur