Chavez has been seen as a symbol of Latin American unity and regional economic integration even as many countries in the region support this idea including conservative ones.
And there are serious challenges to the unity of Europe, which is very evident now because the European common market arrangements did not include the economic arrangements that would be necessary to bring about a consolidated market.
As Matt explains in the prologue, which Burstein delivers energetically and comically to the audience, the propaganda and economic machinery of World War II is causing the public to turn their focus to individual prosperity, abandoning the common unity they felt during the Depression.