“…Correa's assumption of the presidency imprinted new contours on foreign policy, as indicated by his administration's programmatic documents 7 (MALAMUD and ROSELL, 2009;ZEPEDA, 2011;ZEPEDA and EGAS, 2011). In these the country's international insertion were strongly associated with South-South cooperation, which would impact not only on the form of the country's relations ______________________________________________________________________________________________ with the United States, but also regional integration projects, both for the Andean region and the whole of South America (AYLLÓN and DOLCETTI-MARCOLINI, 2016;ZEPEDA, 2011).…”