Tracking Broken Promises

So, as we move towards Friday’s big flashy launch of Chávez’s pet Organization of American but Not North American States, I keep thinking someone, somewhere should be keeping a...

So, as we move towards Friday’s big flashy launch of Chávez’s pet Organization of American but Not North American States, I keep thinking someone, somewhere should be keeping a kind of searchable archive of crazy-ass regional integration schemes Chávez has promised that came to nothing. We can all remember the insane plan to send a natural gas pipeline from Caracas to Buenos Aires but avoiding Brazil! Of course, there are any number of others…

So, in my ignorance, I ask you, the reader: Is anybody keeping track of these systematically? And what’s your personal favorite broken regional-integration-scheme promise?