Brazil Is All Talk and No Help, Says Bolivia's President
Written by Spensy Pimentel
Thursday, 11 May 2006
The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, does not include Brazil on the roll of countries that support his country unselfishly or that have undertaken some kind of cooperation with the Bolivians.
In a press conference this Thursday, May 11, at the 4th Latin American-Caribbean-European Union Summit, in Vienna, Austria, Morales said that, although he has already spoken with President Lula about cooperation between the two countries, there has been nothing concrete from Brazil so far along these lines.
In the interview, the Bolivian president recalled the episode of Brazil's purchase of Acre from Bolivia at the beginning of the 20th century.
"They traded Acre for a horse," Morales asserted.
"In our government nothing like this will happen, because the struggle of the indigenous peoples has historically been the defense of territory and of natural resources."
Morales went on to say that he tried to contact Lula before proclaiming the nationalization of Bolivian natural gas and petroleum reserves but was "barred" by the Brazilian president's aides.
will Brazil invade? written by Guest,
May 11, 2006
not that far-fetched is it?
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Cap and Blast written by Guest,
May 11, 2006
The best thing that you can do when a nation steals your hard work from you is to take your machinery home. Wait and see how long it takes for the offending nation to concede their need for foreign investment, development, and technology. Standard Oil and Shell both learned the hard way. The best thing that Brazil can do in the face of such abject National Socialism (Nazi-ism) is to cement and cap our gas wells and destroy our equipment. We will never get it back and we have (at least) the satisfaction of knowing that the explotation of our hard work will not go to serve a growing military threat on our western border. Sr. Chavez and Morales have been working out this plan for several months now and their are plenty of Venezuelans who believe we are wasting the resources of the Amazon and will be quick to seize it based on our reaction to Bolivia's overt act of war. We have a growing threat on our borders, the time to act is right now Sr. Presidente!
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I agree written by Guest,
May 11, 2006
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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Bam written by Guest,
May 12, 2006
Too late to "Cap & Blast" or for the Brazilian companies to "take their toys home" and leave nothing behind...The troops have sealed off any & all access by outsiders...
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Sooooo WRONG ! written by Guest,
May 12, 2006
In most oil producing countries, the oil belongs to the government !
Even in Brazil it is so !
So why is Bolivia doing something wrong when in fact they simply just do what the other have doing for already a long time !
And why is Lula and the Brazilian so surprised ? Morales said before the elections that the Bolivian energy will be nationalized. Lula even said then that he would prefer to have Morales elected.
Morales is keeping his promises. Lula never kept his election promises !
short memories.... short memories.... the brazilian...but on purpose !
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Brazil received a huge boost in its international image with its selection as the host of the 2016 Olympics, but it was really just the cherry on top of the overall recognition of the country's ascension to the ranks of one of the world's most important countries. Now, as it finally takes its place on the world scene, there has been a great deal of concern about what kind of image Brazil hopes to project, now that the world is really paying attention. 
The only good thing to say about the visit to Brazil of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Monday November 23, is that it was mercifully short and lasted less than 24 hours. Ahmadinejad had his picture taken being hugged by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who gave him a warm welcome and said Iran had every right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. 
The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
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