Pan-Americanism, closely related to Americanism, is an American political, social, economic and diplomatic movement or current that aims to originate, promote, nurture, condition or organize the relations, cooperation and association that can be generated between the countries that make up the America in the different fields where they have a particular interest. In other words, Pan-Americanism is a principle or belief of unity among the nations that the American continent represents.
Its origins date back to the year 1800, starting from the struggle for the emancipation of Latin America, and implanting the idea that because they are neighboring countries and American nations, they should join forces and support each other in terms of sovereignty and security, that independence. previously won from the Latin American nations, followed by the development of the United States as a world power, allowed the birth of this ideology that the new world of the western hemisphere was different from the old world that was flooded by the European monarchy, uniting them each time more.
Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan politician and military man, and he is considered the father of Pan-Americanism; since his belief and ideology was the complete political union of the states of America that included a permanent political and military contribution. This person, so important for the history of the American nations, was the one who ambitioned the creation of Gran Colombia, which would encompass what was New Granada and Venezuela, but which was not only limited to this but also included the rest of the former Spanish colonies; This was due to the fact that Simón Bolívar had the conception that the union of these forces governed by a single supreme government would favor all the American territories.
