05 November 2011

BRASIL / BOLIVIA : Brasilia's Growing Dominance Upsets Its Neighbors.

                                         NYTIMES / S.ROMERO

      As Brasil's economic might grows...so do its neighbors' resentments.
      Recently, indigena bloodied Bolivia's President Evo Morales...forcing him to abandon a controversial Brasil-backed Amazon highway.
      There have been other Brasil-led development tensions in Guyana, Argentina and Peru.
    “Now Brasil is engaging Latin America more deeply, without a clear policy of addressing the anxiety that can accompany this process,” says a Brasilian professor. “There’s the real danger of being on the receiving end of anger in certain places.”