South American cartel networks fight to consolidation, 2048–2052, before formalizing the SCA under unified command in 2053.
The globe's own founding note for the SCA: the cartel networks formalized under unified command after the cartel wars of 2048–2052. The charter of 2038 and the Amazonian Metroplex predate the wars; the alliance as a bloc comes out of them (CL-003).