Tag: mercosur

For Brazil and Neighbors, the FTAA Is a Recipe for Impoverishment Not Empowerment

As a result of vehement opposition from around Latin America, the Bush administration’s efforts ...

EU and Mercosur Betting They Will Soon End Stalemate for Accord

The European Union seeks to reach an associative agreement with Mercosur in May 2006, ...

Brazil and Argentina: Two Neighbors Who Can’t Get Along

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been badly wounded by the corruption ...

Brazil Adopts Spanish as Second Language

Brazilian Congress gave final approval Thursday to a bill that makes Spanish a second ...

Community of Nations, a Brazilian Dream of Riches

Recently the presidents of South American nations launched a proposal to form a “Community ...

The Invasion of Uruguay. Brazil Has Taken Over the Meat and Rice Industries

In Uruguay, as in all other countries in the region, the expansion of single-crop ...