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.