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Brazil & Southern Cone - February 2008 (ISSN 1741-4431)
MERCOSUR: Brazil-Venezuela rivalry in Paraguayan election
The rivalry between Brazil's President Lula da Silva and President Hugo
Chávez of Venezuela has found a new battleground in the Paraguayan presidential
elections. Despite the discretion of both Brazilian and Venezuelan governments
on their preferred electoral outcome, declarations from two of the main
candidates make it clear where their sympathies lie. While former General Lino
Oviedo brags that his prospective government would seek closer ties with Brazil,
his leftist-populist rival, Fernando Lugo, expresses anti-Brazilian sentiment in
his campaign.
- Credit card scandal rocks Lula government
- BRAZIL: Dispute undermines energy sector and the environment
- BRAZIL: Brazil and France find common ground
- BRAZIL: Forging ahead
- MERCOSUR: Brazil-Venezuela rivalry in Paraguayan election
- PARAGUAY: Ovelar proclaimed winner but Colorados split
- URUGUAY: Vázquez emphatically rejects re-election
- CHILE: Growing Mapuche pressure sways government
- CHILE: 'Due obedience' revived in case against general
- CHILE: Zaldívar deals for presidency of the senate
- ARGENTINA: US-Argentine relations "back to normal"
- ARGENTINA: Peronism refounded
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: Southern Cone
- Argentina: 1, Brazil: 0, in match for Bolivian gas