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  <title><![CDATA[Colombia’s Mejía formally takes office as Unasur Secretary General]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Colombia’s former Foreign Minister, María Emma Mejía, was appointed Monday as the new Secretary General to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) in a ceremony in Georgetown hosted by Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Colombia’s Mejía formally takes office as Unasur Secretary General]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[GeoffWard]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“South America is one of the regions in the world with the largest gap between rich and poor. We need to reverse this terrible situation,” she explained."

I guess you do this by making the rich poorer.
As most of the rich are politicians, perhaps we should tell her that turkeys don't actually vote for Christmas.

[This is only partially a joke.]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:12:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Martin_Fierro]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thank you Geoff for that enlightened remark. 

UNASUR is official.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 23:08:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[It has been official since 2008, it´s just that now it has somebody in post to do something.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 00:37:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA["Unasur became legally existent last March 11 when nine of its twelve members ratified the treaty and charter."
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/05/11/unasur-to-achieve-a-south-american-continent-united-and-in-peace-by-2020

Before these nine members ratified the treaty, the argument was that the treaty wasn't ratified. Unasur has had a Secretary General since the beginning, Nestor Kirchner.

I don't really see the argument now, to be honest.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 01:58:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Yo! Unasur is official!

Only need Paraguay on side and we can get near a Unasur Full House.

Only need Paraguay on side and we can welcome the chief lunatic Chavez to the Mercosur asylum. 

It's bad enough having Venezuela in line for controlling South American continental affairs, 
but having Chavez twisting the tail of Brasil's Mercosur-worldwide trading arangements is just too much to contemplate.

Still, perhaps Dilma talked some sense into him at yesterday's meeting. Some hope!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 10:44:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Always looking at the half-empty side of the glass, huh Geoff? ;-)

Come on man, I'll buy you a cup of coffee... by the time you finish it you'll feel even more hopeful.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 11:54:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 12:51:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fido Dido]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geofff, I'll buy for you your cucumber sandwiches.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 21:23:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fido Dido]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geoff, when are you going back to your homeland and stay there?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 03:21:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fido, we citizens of the globalised world travel widely,  and we live many places. 
Though I was born elsewhere,  I live in Brasil - this land is my home.
I wish it well; I wish it better; and I wish it better in the context of a better continent.
It is not wrong to wish for and to work for that improvement - even (and especially)  if it means supporting Mercosur and Unasur as well as Brasil.

Come on, Fido, start beating your own drum.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 11:32:53 GMT</pubDate>
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