CARACAS, Monday September 08, 2008 | Update
Economy
Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim considers that "it
is possible and desirable" that the Brazilian Congress will
approve Venezuela's admission to the Market of the South (Mercosur),
the regional trade agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
and Uruguay. Amorim thinks that the entry of Venezuela into
Mercosur would be approved after the upcoming municipal elections
in Brazil.
"I consider that the admission of Venezuela is very difficult
at this moment, because we are on the eve of an election throughout
the country," said Amorim in an interview published on Monday
in Argentinean newspaper Clarín, EFE reported.
"However, I think that the Brazilian Congress will make a
positive decision after the elections in November. It is possible
and desirable," Amorim added.
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."