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Colombia’s Mejía formally takes office as Unasur Secretary General
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. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“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.”
May 10th, 2011 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I 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.]
Thank you Geoff for that enlightened remark.
May 10th, 2011 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0UNASUR is official.
It has been official since 2008, it´s just that now it has somebody in post to do something.
May 11th, 2011 - 12:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Unasur became legally existent last March 11 when nine of its twelve members ratified the treaty and charter.”
May 11th, 2011 - 01:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://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.
Yo! Unasur is official!
May 11th, 2011 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Only 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!
Always looking at the half-empty side of the glass, huh Geoff? ;-)
May 11th, 2011 - 11:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Come on man, I'll buy you a cup of coffee... by the time you finish it you'll feel even more hopeful.
:-)
May 11th, 2011 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Geofff, I'll buy for you your cucumber sandwiches.
May 11th, 2011 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-))
May 11th, 2011 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Geoff, when are you going back to your homeland and stay there?
May 12th, 2011 - 03:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Fido, we citizens of the globalised world travel widely, and we live many places.
May 12th, 2011 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Though 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.
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