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Cartes and Rousseff confirm Mercosur with inauguration of 500 KW power plant and transmission line
Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes and his peer from Brazil Dilma Rousseff inaugurated on Tuesday a 500KW power plant and line from the Itaipú hydroelectric dam to the city of Asunción which should help end endemic blackouts and supply a new industrial park. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHow.... unexpected.
Oct 30th, 2013 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or what do you think, Anglotino?
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Brazil is a soft power. I do not want to sound boastful, but I repeat: Brazil is getting very rich and very smart. Congratulations to Brazil and Paraguay.
Oct 30th, 2013 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETkYhhz05A
Special Mercosur funds?
Oct 30th, 2013 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And how much has Argentina, Uruguay or Venezuela put into that piggy bank?
No its Brazilian money and they know how to advance thier own interests and to hell with the rest
Cheap at the price for Brazil to keep Paraguay as a client state
Concordo plenamente com Brasiliero !
Oct 31st, 2013 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0The translator is working very well today !
#RedPoll Firstly, tt's Brazilian money to build a bridge between BRAZIL and Paraguay. It sounds reasonable that Argentine, Venezuelan and Uruguayan tax payers are not hurted. Or am I missing something?
Oct 31st, 2013 - 01:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Secondly, the bridge can be (and it will be) used for Paraguans export and travel to Brazil too. How is Brazil keeping Paraguay as a client state?
Brazilians are diplomats and know how to keep little Paraguay happy as opposed to Argentina which chooses to bully its junior partner next door
Oct 31st, 2013 - 02:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4
Oct 31st, 2013 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0I received a call from a Brazilian startup to assist in the development / completion of a software translator. I hope to use it soon.
I'll leave you with one of the best geopolitical links I know.
http://www.ibge.gov.br/paisesat/
@5 Of course you're missing something. The ability to understand English! But let me help you. Here is a sentence. “with resources from a special fund for infrastructure helped to finance the public work”. There was also a previous article that clarified that the money was from a mercosur fund. Now here, I admit, is the difficult bit. If it's a “mercosur” fund ALL the members should contribute to it. Notice that it's a “fund”, not requests to different members for loans or gifts. The money should be sitting in the fund for when any member needs it. Is that easy enough? Or still too difficult? And the “client state” bit? How are you on brasiguayos? About 10%, or more, of Paraguay's population, aren't they? And how many are legal? How many just slipped over the border? Isn't that Brazil treating part of Paraguay's territory as its own? Have you checked out how much Brazil pays Paraguay for power from the Itaipú dam? A lot less than it should is the answer. Read this: “In 2009, Brazil agreed to a fairer payment of electricity to Paraguay and also allowed Paraguay to sell excess power directly to Brazilian companies instead of solely through the Brazilian electricity monopoly”. Notice that? The dam started operating in 1984 and, after 25 years, Brazil agreed to fairer payment! And Brazil “allowed” Paraguay to sell power to Brazilian companies? And what authority has Brazil to decide where Paraguay can sell its excess power? Is there some reason Paraguay shouldn't sell its excess power to Uruguay?
Oct 31st, 2013 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 8 Comedian
Oct 31st, 2013 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is that what do you learned in England? Breaking contracts and invading countries?
@Conqueror My bad on the fund part. It is really money from all members, but let's do our homework and go to the figures, fun facts and practice the ability to understand Portuguese.
Oct 31st, 2013 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.mercosul.gov.br/fundo-de-convergencia-estrutural-do-mercosul-focem
See? Brazil and Argentina are basically financing projects to Paraguay and Uruguay, who donate 1% and 2%, respectively!
For the Itaipu dam: I previously explained very well how the contract with Paraguay works and how they have ALWAYS benefited from it - with nearly zero risk in the building of the dam and with royalties in payment. I'm too bored today to play with you. And there is a very good reason to not allow Paraguay to sell energy to Uruguay and pay the the price it used to pay: both agreed Brazil that way. Do your research and you'll find very interesting things about the amount of money Paraguay has earned with Itaipu.
I guess Brasiguayos are doing very well, the opposite of Paraguayan economy before they arrived and settled the land they paid for. Too bad corrupted Paraguayans sold a lot of fake tittles. Now after realizing the money they made, the Paraguayans want it back - at the expense of the security of Brasiguayan children who are bullied at school and adults who have their property invaded. To hell with the jobs those German-Brazilians created in Paraguay, to Hell with the money they paid in taxes during all these years. Brace youself, South America, Brazil is a rogue imperialist state!
Brazil has taken very little initiative in this dispute between two brother members of Mercosur and has played the “chancho rengo” (lame pig) in the matter of Bothnia/UPM
Oct 31st, 2013 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why?
a.) Probabably didnt want the pollution caused by Brazillians in the headwaters of the Rio Uruguay to feature in the dispute
b.) Only too happy to see Uruguay and Argentina falling out with each other as it weakens both of them.Brazil may pay lip service to Mercosur and will go along so long as it is thier interest but will do exactly what thier own national interests dictate and to hell with mercosur
]c.) I dont like conspiracy theories but sometimes they turn out to be true such as the secret Ribbentrop pact with Russia on how to divide up Poland
So here is an the imaginary conversation
Dilma “Che Cristina, you stir up the Uruguayans until they finally react and give you a casus belli to invade”
Cristina “ What would Brazils attitude be if we did?”
Dilma “Of course we would condemn your aggresion at the UN and break off diplomatic relations.
We would also have to safeguard our nationals living in northern Uruguay under the pretext of sticking up for the defense of the Uruguayan rights as a sovreign nation”
Cristina “So which bit do you want Dilma?”
Dilma “ Oh I think anything north of the Rio Negro river will be fine for the moment”
Cristina “ Yes I think I can agree to that. So its a done deal?”
Dilma “Yes”
Oi Brasileiro -
Oct 31st, 2013 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another excellent point made regarding contractual laws between our nations.
The translator you are using continues to work very well. Your statements in English are clear and concise.
Continue o bom trabalho !
@9 Wanker.
Oct 31st, 2013 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Isn't that what latinos do? Let's take a look a what “certain” latino “places” do. Argieland, being as thick as double-strength shit, breaks contracts regularly and invades, or attempts to invade, whenever it suits. Brazil, being a bit more savvy, also breaks contracts or forces other parties to accept crap terms. Uruguay, being useless, just breaks contracts. Isn't the UN Charter a contract? Doesn't every “member” of mercosur and unasur breach that Charter every day? Aren't UN members supposed to treat all states, including those that are non-self governing, in the same way as they would treat their own metroplitan areas?
@11 redpoll - Give us back our colony of Sacramento.
Oct 31st, 2013 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@12 BOTINHO - Olá, Thanks for your compliment .... I don't have received lately.
Paraguay what a bunch of idiots they tback 1 cent for every dollar brazil take from them!
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