“Brazil does not speak about the internal situation of any country,” President Dilma Rousseff declared recently. Of course, that is not true. When the left-wing president of Honduras was ousted by its supreme court in 2009, Brazil led the charge to have Honduras expelled from the OAS. When Paraguay’s parliament impeached its populist president in 2012, Rousseff went on a diplomatic rampage, forcing Paraguay out of the Mercosur trade bloc. The real reason Brazil won’t act in Venezuela is ideological. “For Brazil, it’s very important that Venezuela always be looked at from the point of view of advances … in education and health for the people,” Rousseff said. In other words, intervention is called for only when it benefits the left. Read more here: miamiherald/2014/03/04/3973253/venezuela-burns-alone.html#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:08:25 +0000