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 The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, sent a message to his American colleague, Barack Obama: South America "does not need US bases" in Colombia to combat narcotics trade. Lula then suggested that Obama look after US drug addicts.
"Dear friend Obama, we don't need US bases in Colombia to combat narcotics trade in South America. We can look after combating narcotics trade inside our borders and you must look after your drugs' consumers. That way we'll have a better world," said the Brazilian leader in direct reference to the Colombia/US accord for the use of Colombian military bases by US forces.
President Lula was addressing the national congress of the PCdoB (Brazilian Communist Party), an ally of his administration.
The Brazilian president has been critical of the Colombia/US treaty from the beginning and said the task of fighting narcotics trade in South America belonged to UNASUR (Union of South American Nations), which includes a South American Defense Council and in a near future in "this framework we are going to organize a council to combat the narcotics trade."
However he was also quick to point out that Brazil, Latin America's largest economy, must not act with a hegemonic spirit in South American affairs.
"Brazil must not behave as if it had hegemony over the region. It must be the main symbol and guarantee of unity inside UNASUR, the eldest member, the member that has the capacity to work for unity, to build bridges, to establish dialogue."
With this purpose in mind he said that one of the main integrating instruments for the region is the Bank of the South, set to finance infrastructure projects in the region, "that is our World Bank."
Lula mentioned as an example of a positive alliance for the region the cooperation policies with Venezuela and underlined the need for Brazil to reduce its trade surplus with several countries of the region to help "with a better balance."
"Venezuela has a trade deficit of five billion dollars with us because it has nothing to sell us and that is why we are helping them to create production lines in food and other light industries. We're opening a joint refinery so they can sell us oil," pointed out Lula.
"The role of Brazil, given its size, is to favor integration and fairness" in the region promoting joint development policies.
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) bin Laden ! 
Why so many other world leaders -including Mr Obama- pay atention to what Lula says ?
It is because this is only way to save the planet from the nails of political currents like "the Falcons" of the USA that wants to burn the whole planet in order to keep with their profits...
In the past recent years, when Bolívia's Evo Morales started demanding more than what was previiously agreed in contracts, Mr Lula da Silva caused a tremendous impact in the whole world, specially to their oppositors inside Brazil, stating that Bolivia had the rights for demmanding new rules in their previous contracts with Brazil on LPG. Some political currents inside Brazil (read PSDB) wanted him to immediatly send troops to Bolivia, the real non-sense...
One day, if these "Falcons" and theis followers don't explode this planet first, the whole civilization will understand what is behind the words of Mr Lula da SIlva, the so called "illiterate" President of Brazil...