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Brazil Warns Of Waning U.S. Influence In South America |
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Written by Steve Anderson
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:03 |
Suggests Obama should meet with Chavez
Brazilian Foreign Minister Celos Amorim last weekend warned that relations between the United States and South America are deteriorating and called on U.S. President Barack Obama to begin a dialogue with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
“It’s possible that by the time President Obama concentrates on the region’s problems, relations between United States and South America will have deteriorated even further,” said Amorim in a Sunday interview with Folha de Sao Paulo. “Let’s hope it does not happen. Maybe President Obama is so absorbed with Iraq and Afghanistan that it keeps him from concentrating on other issues.”
The Brazilian official insisted that the core issue of relations between the US and South America is the deployment of US forces in seven Colombian bases in accordance with an agreement recently signed between the Obama administration and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
“I believe the US should act with more openness towards the region,” said Amorim. “President Lula da Silva proposed to Obama a meeting to address the issue (of US personnel in Colombian bases), but he did not accept.”
“These bases have triggered concern” because the agreement “contains ambiguities,” said Amorim. “Not only does it refer to combating the drug trade, it also mentions threats to peace and democracy. But who defines what are threats to democracy?”
Amorim downplayed recent statements by Venezuelan president Chavez calling on Venezuela’s military and the civilian population to prepare for war with Colombia. “Chavez took back that statement,” said Amorim. “It is one thing is to talk about war, a word which should not be used, and another is the practical and objective issue of the U.S. bases in Colombia.
“Venezuela might have a rivalry with Colombia, but Venezuela does not feel threatened by Colombia,” he explained. “But it does feel threatened by the United States.… That is why we recommended a direct dialogue between United States and Venezuela” as a way to defuse tensions in the region.
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YOU LOST IN VIETNAM, SOMALIA, NOW IT WILL COME AFGANISTAN.
You system has made possible the biggest RECETION in the World.Just follow your masters the Israelis.
Bye4 now.
My first suggestion is that people learn to read and secondly they do a little background reading.
He wants to follow Bolivar.s conquest of So American by any means possible. He realy intends to anex all or most of Guiana (sp?) & aid FARC takeover of Columbia.
However, it is not any of the US's business what So American countries do to themselves.