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...helped us with the question of our debt and our energy crisis, but also because of our understanding that he's won his presidential elections with the approval of international observers. Let me reiterate that no one selects Argentina's friends but Argentina. President Kirchner, [Brazilian President] Lula, Chavez, are all in sync with regard to the need to integrate into our own regional bloc, and Venezuela meets our criteria with regard to democracy and human rights...
...there also needs to be a spirit of multilateralism in the hemisphere for once. I don't know if the U.S. and Chavez require an interlocutor; but the only advice I can give is to engage countries with regard for their popular sovereignty. When you look at Chavez and Lula and Bolivian President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, you realize that perhaps for the first time in [Latin America's] history, those who govern actually look like those being governed...
...were watching a meeting of a Che Guevara fan club. Leftist, anti-Yanqui sentiments, thought to have faded with the 20th century, have made a comeback, embodied by leaders like Venezuela's radical Hugo Chàvez, Brazil's former union boss Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva and Bolivia's socialist Evo Morales. Never mind coming to terms with these leaders--the U.S. finds it hard even to talk with them. An interpreter would be useful...
...accuse the U.S. of evil imperialist designs, she welcomes Washington's leadership in global affairs. "America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly," she tells Time. But Fernàndez adds that Washington needs to recognize that leaders like Chàvez, Lula and Morales are products of genuine democracy; unlike the dictators and élitists of Latin America's past, they come from the same ethnic, social and economic backgrounds as the majority of their countrymen. Morales, for example, is Bolivia's first President to hail from its indigenous people. "Perhaps...
...Lula and Unger were also recently at odds over a legal claim Unger made in the U.S. in which he sought “close to $2 million against some pension funds controlled by Brazilian state-owned companies,†according to Reisen de Pinho. The suit prompted speculation in the Brazilian media that Unger might not assume his post, but he was inaugurated last week despite what seems to be a rocky relationship with Lula...