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Article: BRAZIL: UNASUL TO CHANGE SOUTH AMERICAN GEOPOLITICS.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- May 27, 2008
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According to anba: President Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva said today (26th) that the creation of the Union of South American Nations (Unasul) should change the geopolitics of South America, making its member countries "stronger and more sovereign." To Lula, the bloc's formation represents the realization of a dream. "It seemed like something impossible to accomplish because here, in South America, we were made to believe that we wouldn't be successful in anything, that we are poor, that we fight amongst ourselves and must depend on the United States and the European Union," he asserted. South American heads of state gathered last Friday (23rd) in the Brazilian capital ...