Since the middle of the decade 2000, various Latin American nations have sensibly tightened their ties with Iran. The president Mahmud Ahmadineyad visited various countries from the Bolivarian bloc headed by Venezuela, and political and economic ties have taken new vigor. What was the process that enabled the closening of countries with such distant histories, cultures and regimes? What values do the Latin American countries share with Tehran? To what extent do these relations depend on the occasion, as much Iranian as Latin American? The article responds to these questions and provides reading keys for contextualizing the new sovereign geo-political axes in the world today.