Brazzil

Not an in depth article and sounds more like an institutional advertisement, justifying the purchase of 36 Rafael fighters from France. Whether Sarko and Monsieur Dassault will set up the manufacturing unit in Brazil or not, only the time will tell.

Unfortunately, the writer does not touch upon an important subject which was raised by another Brasilian scholar, Mr.Augustus Severus and is being extensively discussed- "The Polarization of Latin America" through this "Arm Race".

The previous entry by “Triple Dot” has several valid points!

Of course everyone knows that, on the surface, a purely defensive position was officially adopted by the Brazilian Armed Forces when announcing its decision to purchase submarines and fighter jets, particularly in light of the huge oil reserves along the coast line and in the Amazon region! Likewise, it is quite obvious that most observers would ever realistically expect Brazil to be nurturing plans to invade any of its neighbors!

However, there are many additional factors involved, far beyond what meets the eye! In effect, and I must reluctantly agree with the other Brazilian-American author who had at least the foresight to anticipate the clear growing polarization of the region. Because Latin America is currently in the midst of a growing competition between its most influential nations of the moment (Venezuela & Brazil), it is not difficult to foresee the formation of opposing alliances to the detriment of UNASUR, sooner or later; it’s nearly a matter of “WHEN” as opposed to “IF”.

Given the inevitability of a right of the center government to be elected in Brazil (either in 2010 or 2014), given the growing radicalization, driving the Venezuelan strong-man (who has already manipulated the original democratic channels to remain indefinitely in power) to adopt an ever more authoritarian leftist position, along with the is likely formation of different alliances in the continent, fed by a progressively weak United States which is bound to consider such regional divisions in its national interest, I’m afraid we are witnessing the dawn of a brand new era for the nations located south of the Mexican border.

Consequently, the lovely author of the above editorial might consider enhancing her analytical tools, expanding her horizons beyond articles published in “The Brazilian”, and taking a sterner, deeper look at what lies underneath the blatant facts within the official agendas formally broadcast in Brasilia, Caracas, Bogota, and Santiago.

POLARIZATION = A concentration, as of groups, forces, or interests, about two increasingly (and potentially) conflicting or contrasting positions

Despite my previous comment, in partial support of your triple dot comment, do not harass the Lady!!!

For all I know she could be "at least" a neighbor of your New Yorker-Brazilian friend!!!

Despite my previous comment, in partial support of your triple dot comment,

ET, you are not all that smart, as you like to portray your self. In our language, there is a word to describe you and it is "Gostosão". Of course, I don't want to come to a hasty conclusion about your idiotic self, because you are new to our planet and not very familiar with the Internet Browsers. If you are, you would have found out that I have nothing to do with "Triple Dot", who is a Canuck. BUT.....BUT.... I do accept your compliments when you said that I have several valid points (I do have 95% of the time). For this reason I forgive you for this almost unforgivable error of confusing me with an useless Canadian.

Having said that, let me analyze your next point:

For all I know she could be "at least" a neighbor of your New Yorker-Brazilian friend!!!

She could be a "neighbor" of my "New Yorker-Brasilian" friend, since she also lives in Manhattan. BUT...BUT... she could have called him over the phone and politely requested him to check the veracity of the contents of her article. If I am not mistaken, the local telephone calls are free in the U.S. and she didn't have to spend an extra cent to do it. May be she was too shy to confront a "Real" Brasilian intellectual, scholar, gentleman, friend, philosopher, guide, etc; , in spite of his being a Carioca.

Now, ET, get back to your spaceship and don't call me "Triple Dot", lest I will be forced to sue you. Savvy?

Yessss...but if you pay close attention to the public speeches of these 2 countries Presidents.....they are BOTH VERY ARROGANT to the USA and the developed nations.

To some extend they are not very much different !

How curious finding bloggers lacking subtlety and perspective.

Any well-informed individual on the face of this planet would never antagonize the view where the current Venezuelan Leader (along with his allies in Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador and Nicaragua) do not refrain from making explicit outrageous remarks against the United States of America. Hence, one must clearly applaud the author’s perfect mastered ability in exercising the “Art of the Obvious”

Any unrefined entity, sufficiently literate to be well-versed on current world events might be better poised to comment on the disposition of the current Brazilian administration toward the American government. In effect, although rather unqualified and coarse Brazilian leader is widely known to have the unusual capacity to converse with his pears in Washington, Caracas, London and Beijing, without any ideologically bound standpoint. Thus, one must likewise congratulate the author’s ability to deliberately ignore World Events (as it has transpired so far in the year of the Lord 2009)

While addressing the subject of “Arrogance”, one can hardly ignore the consistently supercilious disposition of certain regular bloggers who never miss the opportunity to strongly disparage or belittleany and all issues pertaining to the government, culture, and citizens of the very country representing the main topic of this (Hosting) Blog.

How peculiar and uncouth!

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Claro que o Brasil tem que fazer algo para proteger suas riquezas, como a Floresta Amazônica e as novas reservas de petróleo do Pré-Sal.
O Brasil está apenas fazendo o que grandes países já fizeram. O Brasil está se tornando uma grande potência.

Of course Brazil has to do something to protect their wealth, as the Amazon rainforest and the new oil reserves in the pre-salt.
Brazil is just doing what big countries have done. Brazil is becoming a great power.