Editing Andean Community (section)

==History==
[[File:Comunidad andina.svg|thumb|right|200px|Member states]]
The original Andean Pact was founded in 1969 by [[Bolivia]], [[Chile]], [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], and [[Peru]]. In 1973 the pact gained its sixth member, Venezuela. In 1976 however, its membership was again reduced to five when Chile withdrew. Venezuela announced its withdrawal in 2006, reducing the Andean Community to four member states.

Recently, with the new cooperation agreement with [[Mercosur]], the Andean Community gained four new associate members: [[Argentina]], [[Brazil]], [[Paraguay]], and [[Uruguay]]. These four Mercosur members were granted associate membership by the Andean Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in an enlarged session with the Commission (of the Andean Community) on 7 July 2005. This moves reciprocates the actions of Mercosur which granted associate membership to all the Andean Community nations by virtue of the Economic Complementarity Agreements ([[Free trade agreement|Free Trade agreements]]) signed between the CAN and individual Mercosur members.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.comunidadandina.org/ingles/common/mercosur2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020616143720/http://www.comunidadandina.org/ingles/common/mercosur2.htm |archive-date= 16 June 2002 |title=CAN – Mercosur}}</ref>

[[Evgeny Morozov]] argues that the original Andean Pact was motivated in part by a pursuit of [[technological sovereignty]] and independence from partnerships with American technology companies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morozov |first=Evgeny |date=2023-09-09 |title=The lessons of Chile’s struggle against Big Tech |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-essay/2023/09/salvador-allende-fight-big-tech |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=[[New Statesman]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Evgeny Morozov: We Need a Nonmarket Modernist Project |url=https://jacobin.com/2023/12/evgeny-morozov-interview-technology-sovereignty-global-south-development-cybersyn |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]] |language=en-US |quote=...past efforts at such cooperation that had technological sovereignty as their goal, the Andean Pact being the foremost example. Signed by five nations in Peru, this pact’s main objective was to overcome external trade barriers and promote regional cooperation to foster industrialization and economic development. [[Orlando Letelier]], Chile’s foreign minister under Allende, led the negotiations, highlighting the need to address the exploitation derived from technological property and dependence on foreign companies. Letelier proposed the creation of something like a technological equivalent of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Andean Pact, to facilitate developing countries’ access to technological advances and patents.}}</ref>