Da relação entre Brasil e seus vizinhos

“In the same meeting, a former foreign minister of one of Brazil’s neighbors affirmed that his country was culturally more connected to several European countries, saying he felt ‘far away from Brazil’, which now ‘has a global focus rather than a regional one’. But the increasing presence of Brazilian companies in the region, the opaque nuclear policy (e.g. construction of nuclear-power submarines), ‘makes us uneasy’.

This was very much aligned with the views several Uruguayans shared with me during my visit to Montevideo two weeks ago - Brazil, according to them, sought to be ‘o mais grande do mundo’ (the world’s greatest, in Portuñol), but cared little about its neighbors’ welfare. ‘When was the last time Brazil stood up for Latin America?’ a Uruguayan minister asked me during an interview.”

— Oliver Stuenkel no blog Post-Western World.

Nossos vizinhos têm razão. Íntegra do post. Aliás, o blog todo é interessante e merece leitura.