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Paraguay fearful of “Brazilian dominance” reveals Wikileaks cable
Paraguay expressed deep concern about “Brazilian dominance” in South America, reveals a diplomatic cable exposed by Wikileaks and reproduced this week by the Brazilian portal ‘Opera Mundi’. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“assert Brazilian dominance, a course she strongly opposes because it translates into unfettered Brazilian control of Paraguay’s destiny”.
Feb 18th, 2011 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Surely she didn't complain about the unfettered control of her country by the yanks!!.
The half of Paraguay that borders Brazil has a lot of Brazilian farmers and ranchers that took otherwise fallow land and made it productive. Now Paraguay's economy has been boosted by soy exports and the Brazilian government had had to protect the Brazilian farmers from attacks by Paraguayans. These Brazilian farmers created jobs were there weren't any, brought in agronomy know-how to where only miserable subsistence farming existed and made the otherwise hapless Paraguayan economy boom. Eventually that chunk of Paraguay may have to be made into a separate country, it would be good to have a buffer state, especially a Portuguese-speaking buffer state between the two countries.
Feb 18th, 2011 - 03:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Her problem is that she cannot bribe the Brazilians. Paraguay's economy is controlled by Brazilians.
Feb 18th, 2011 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I may be naive in thinking that Amorim was truely trying to 'throw the USA out of South America' rather than trying to use disengagement as a tool to progressively dominate and take over other S.A. states.
Feb 25th, 2011 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The track record shows that Anti-US was the driving motivation. It was a hate-thing.
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