Brazil Invites Mexico to Create a Trade Bloc with Global Ambitions
Written by Newsroom
Tuesday, 07 August 2007
Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has invited Mexico to join South America in an only trade bloc with global aspirations. The Brazilian leader currently visiting Mexico with a numerous trade delegation also called on his hosts to join Mercosur.
Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, thanked his Brazilian counterpart for the invitation to join Mercosur during a business forum with corporate leaders from both countries. Brazil has insisted on several occasions that Mexico and Brazil should team up to create a joint investments market, particularly for energy.
Lula said the integration process in Latin America is possible and there are "immense and extraordinary opportunities" for Mexican and Brazilian companies to associate and tackle international projects.
"It's a historic opportunity to look for opportunity niches. We must be bold and increase our countries potential, it's time we stopped caring about fear and moved on".
Lula was particularly interested in pointing out the possibilities of government owned oil companies such as Petrobras and Pemex, operating as an only company searching for oil and gas. He also invited Mexico to participate in developing alternative fuels such as ethanol of which Brazil is a leading global powder.
President Calderon said "we have geographic position to the north but our heart is in the south and in Latin America".
Who edits this stuff? written by Ric,
August 07, 2007
I think the word you are looking for is "BLOC".
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August 07, 2007
Thank Yew.
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... written by conceicao,
August 08, 2007
In a more rational world, the U.S. would offer to cut or eliminate barriers to Brasilian agricultural exports, including ethanol, as an inducement to Mexico and Brasil to enter into the kind of energy cooperation agreement that Lula apparently seeks. Brasil could then give better terms to a Mexican government that badly needs foreign help in order to optimize oil output. The U.S. of course badly needs Mexican oil and the Mexicans would save face by bringing in Petrobras instead of a U.S. major oil company. Chavez and Castro would be screwed economically and diplomatically.
Instead, we have an abortion of an energy bill that the ethanol industry is trying to push through Congress, Pemex is a economic basket case that is badly damaging economic and political development in Mexico, and Petrobras is trolling Putin-like trying to extend its virtual monopoly to the petrochemical complex in Brasil.
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Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has invited Mexico to join South America in an only trade bloc with global aspirations. The Brazilian leader currently visiting Mexico with a numerous trade delegation also called on his hosts to join Mercosur.
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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. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose. 
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
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