Monday, January 31, 2011

Rousseff travels to Argentina in his first outing as president of Brazil

Brazil continued to Argentina as the indispensable partner to boost the South American regional integration and to strengthen the presence in the region on the international scene. The new Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, has made clear it wishes to maintain a relationship "extremely closely" with its counterpart in Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and has continued the tradition, inaugurated by his predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, travel to Buenos Aires in its first official outing.

Rousseff start your visit today and Cristina Fernandez is expected to give a splendid welcome to help dispel the doubts that led to his absence at the inauguration ceremony of the Brazilian president, especially striking the match that two women, for the first time in history, who rule their countries.

Dilma Rousseff's visit also comes as rain in May in Argentina, as it will mitigate the impact caused by the announcement of U.S. President, Barak Obama, will visit Brazil and Chile next March, but will not scale Buenos Aires. Brazil, South American powerhouse, has spent years trying to promote greater regional integration, serene tempers before the launch of its formidable economic and political leadership and to help you achieve higher levels of global prominence.

Its two main bets have been the revitalization of the weak Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), with its new Defense Council. Brazil's Lula was one of the major drivers of this policy and it was Nestor Kirchner, former Argentine president recently deceased, who occupy the first secretary general of UNASUR.

Now his successor, Dilma Rousseff, has suggested that the office "rotate" and which should fall to a politician from another country, probably one of the smallest in the area. That will be one of the chapters of the agenda to negotiate with Cristina Fernández. In an interview with Argentine journalists granted hours before travel to Buenos Aires, Rousseff insisted that the two countries, Argentina and Brazil "have responsibilities in the whole of Latin America" and should launch "a joint strategy for the development of the region.

" The relationship between Brasilia and Buenos Aires, he suggested, will become not only a business relationship (important as it has come to be), but also a special political alliance. "We have a responsibility to ensure that our region has increasingly international presence that can be achieved more effectively the closer our economies, the more articulate and develop." "Besides," he said, "we have a proximity facilitated by the fact that women represent two major economies of the region." The two presidents keep some points in common, but their biographies are very different.

Both are intelligent women, with a strong character and a very ambitious political career, demonstrated in his youth, but there the similarities end. Rousseff was a member of a guerrilla organization during the Brazilian military dictatorship, was tortured and spent nearly three years in prison, while Cristina Fernandez chose to move to Patagonia and practicing law without major problems during the same period of dictatorship in their own country .

Rousseff, divorced, separated paired and again, his entire political road in the shadow of Lula da Silva, without going through elections, while Cristina Fernandez made the political tandem with her husband, Nestor Kirchner, but developed an intense own parliamentary career. In addition, the characteristics of Brazilian domestic politics in Argentina are quite different: in Brasilia is a continued need for weaving and unraveling alliances and agreements between the various political parties and groups, while in Buenos Aires Cristina Fernandez's leadership is exercised much more isolated and confronted.

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