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The present research paper purports to identify whether excess ideology in closed or open regionalism has limited social and economic objectives reach in Latin-American. Closed regionalism belongs to CAN, CELAC, ALBA, MERCOSUR; open regionalism belongs to Alianza del Pacífico. Research was qualitative and descriptive. Strong ideological components were observed in each of the initiatives that were studied. Ideological components made it difficult to establish convergence points which would permit reaching join social and economics objectives. The region´s ability to appear as a solid block is weakened by lack of convergence points. This block would, otherwise, sick to be a determinating actor in world policy and economy. It was concluded that in each of the initiatives studied, a strong ideological component is observed, that makes it difficult to establish points of convergence that allow the achievement of joint social and economic objectives, which weakens the region's ability to show itself to the world as a solid block that attempts to be a determining factor in politics and world economy. ; El objetivo del presente artículo de investigación es identificar si el exceso de ideología en las iniciativas de integración materializadas en el regionalismo cerrado de la CAN, CELAC, ALBA, MERCOSUR y el regionalismo abierto de la Alianza del Pacífico, han limitado el alcance de objetivos sociales y económicos en los países de América Latina, para lo cual se utilizó una investigación cualitativa de orden descriptivo. Se concluyó que en cada una de las iniciativas estudiadas se observan fuertes componentes ideológicos, que dificultan establecer puntos de convergencias que permitan concurrir al alcance de objetivos sociales y económicos conjuntos, lo cual debilita la capacidad de la región para mostrarse al mundo como un bloque sólido que busque ser un actor determinante en la política y economía mundial.