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Dispute hegemonic in south cone
Brasil
Por: Carlos Damián September 5, 2010
Leadership and sovereignty
México .- Upon assuming the presidency pro tempore of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) in San Juan Argentina, the president of Brazil, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, indicated that South America is an example "of how the world can live in peace without nuclear weapons, without war, in a way much more harmonic", and he relied in which during the six months on those which his country will be to the front of the organization the region can advance in the construction of the block in which "all we be friends".

Such affirmation has as context element non-sideways the diplomatic tensions between Colombia and Venezuela, a point on the one which the own Brazilian leader abounded upon indicating that both "countries" must be understood, and to make a relationship of cost-benefit";he indicated that how much more soon it is established the harmony between Caracas and Bogota., "more go to earn the towns" of both nations, and summoned to an approximation between the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and the elect president from Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, to who requested "to exercise his mandate and to negotiate to reach the peace".

When Marco Aurelio Garcia assessor in external policy of the president of Brazil said that “Latin America stopped being the hind courtyard", it was not overdoing. He would have annotated his affirmation to South America, being thus more exact. "We have remodeled the house as soon as the courtyard is much reassessed", terminated Garcia. There is a loss of power that perceives United States because of this the rise militarization in the frontier with Mexico and the military bases arrangement in Colombia and Panama, as well as the revenue of 43 ships, 200 aircraft and seven thousand marines to Costa Rica.

In this deployment of power must find an enemy to justify it: in Mexico the Mr. Calderon takes as personal crusade, the war of the drug traffic and the combat to the independent syndicalism; in the south cone the combat to the drug traffic is untenable. In South America the obstacles to defeat are several, between them Brazil, Venezuela and Bolivia. Venezuela with the Mr. Chavez present it as a demon of the communism - collateral objective -, Bolivia as an indigenous country that struggle by its natural resources, but Brazil would be the principal objective of the empire of the north.

The facts are gone chaining. From April of 2009 China was converted in the greater commercial associate of Brazil, displacing The States, which was occupying that place from the decade of 1930s. "A position that during centuries announces precisely the irruption of the large world leaderships", annotates the European Laboratory of Political Anticipation (Geab No. 43). Furthermore China was converted in the first commercial associate of the Mercosur and of Chile, and the second of Argentina and Peru.
Makes 100 years, The States was buying to Brazil 36 percent of its exports, percentage that it has fallen by below of the 10 percent. Daily official of Beijing recalled that China entered the region by means of a strategic alliance with Argentina and Brazil "because both have a dynamic nuclear industry, powerful aviation industry and good infrastructure in telecommunications" (Daily of the town, June 10, 10). With Brazil the Chinese relationships are closer yet. Some assure that "they have co-operated in secret military technology for missiles ballistic and advanced communications", as part of the Brazilian development project of its industry of missiles.

The strategists of the country of the bars and the stars know of surplus that the only one Latin American country that it can mean them a problem in some moment is Brazil. It is the only one that it has a global projection, and regional. It counts on the seventh industrial park of the world, with a military – industrialist complex important and much money to invest. Has above all, own strategy. Sample of this is the National Strategy of Defense approved two years back.

Samuel Pinheiro Gimaraes, executive of the secretariat of Strategic Matters of the presidency, accepts that the multinational (Petrobras, Vale, Odebercht ...) are "assuming an importance every time greater in each neighboring state", and proposes a Plan Marshal for "to stimulate and to finance the transformation of the neighboring countries". The America of the South excludes automatically to the empire of the north, the South American countries upon growing felt that they can answer to their national sovereignty. The States hegemony in South America this being vanished little by little and with its invasions in the world has despised to the American continent. It is more not even they can guarantee than Colombia and Venezuela solve their conflict in the OAS and it must accept the intervention of Unasur. With its military power and political intervention is just delaying the natural process of the America of the South countries. (La Jornada, opinion, p. 20, August 13, 2010).