As if it needed further proof of how quickly and irreversibly the US is losing its influence in South America, Argentina, and Brazil are sending unmistakable signals to the world.
The extent to which the major South American countries are fed up with the constant meddling of the United States can be seen right now in the revival of Unsasur, encompassing a population as a whole of around 400 million inhabitants.
After Argentina announced a few days ago that the country would return to Unasur, Brazil announced the same.
Brazil officially said it would once again be part of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), a group from which it had withdrawn in 2019, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday, Friday.
The 12-nations bloc Union of South American Nations (Unasur) was created to provide a regional body without interference by the US.
“At a time of resumption of its main international alliances, Brazil will once again become part of the Union of South American Nations,” the foreign ministry statement said, citing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s decree to join the constituent treaty.
The statement added that the measure will take effect next May 6 and “places the country back in the group created during President Lula’s second administration.”
“Unasur was originally founded based on a Constitutive Treaty signed in May 2008 by the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela”, the official note explained.
Brazil’s decision accompanies the decision taken this week by Argentina to return to Unasur, which currently has Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela as members, in addition to Peru, which is suspended.
“With this measure, Brazil ratifies its commitment to the consolidation of South America as a zone of peace and cooperation, in line with the constitutional precept of promoting regional integration,” the Brazilian Foreign Ministry added in another statement.
“The revitalization and updating of Unasur will be a process of collective construction, to be carried out through dialogue among all the region’s countries,” it said.