MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

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  Brasileiro

  Europe and USA, with the decadency of yours economies, need sale your manufacturies in other countries, and South América is the ideal place for this.
  We are in other century, in other millenium. Our people need jobs too. Our domestic market need protection of the abuses the developed countries. Stronger relationships with South América and Meridional África this is the way. We sale a primary products and food for the all planet, imprescindible things. We want buy services and high tecnologies only. We have a strong industrial base and, maybe, no need buy manufacturies in other places.
  The south américan trade must be open only to south américa countries.
  Excuse me for the my “casual” english.
  Thanks

  Sep 21st, 2011 - 02:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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  GeoffWard2

  And so the Grand Plan dies with a whimper.
  
  This is the death of Mercosur - dying from the inside as well as being unable to make the links with the outside because of internal factionalism.
  
  Perhaps there never was any hope - with one dominant, one defaulter with extreme self-centred protectionism, and two minnows.
  But it *could* have WORKED.
  
  OK it needed a 'Civil Service' administrative class of people from each country with clear thinking, an understanding of the ultimate Mercosur objective and the way to get there, powerful drafting skills, and the ability to 'defend the thesis' to the death against all the slings and arrows of the individual vested-interest-political-classes.
  
  It was always going to be a tall order, given the rudimentary and barstardised structures of governance in each constituent nation; the absolute willingness to circumvent and disregard all rules, guidelines and even the Constitutions themselves.
  
  Perhaps these actions (outlined in the article) are the recognition of 'The South American Way' - a different, more self-centered, even anarchistic, approach to affairs.
  
  Brasil will weather this break-up - it will take some years before people agree that the break-up has actually happened - but other members will suffer badly, mostly from being 'picked off' individually by the predators and the vultures.
  
  There will be a need to trade, but the terms will be the selling of the soul and the real estate of the nations. . . because the whole, and the parts, did not achieve 'criticality' when the window of opportunity opened for them.
  
  Brasil will make a separate deal with the EU, simply in order to counter-balance the China Effect.
  
  The USA will force Brasil to the fore and try to ensure a middle-of-the-road-future for South America's jewel in the crown. There is no way the USA can retain the semblence of a SA sphere of influence without this strategy.
  
  So much more to say, but it's time to let others disagree with me.

  Sep 21st, 2011 - 11:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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