La Celac, the monstrosity created by Hugo Chavez and revived by Alberto Fernández, has just died in Buenos Aires.
Brazil has no interest in the mechanism, which will now be chaired by a colorful leader from a small Caribbean island, a puppet of Lopez Obrador, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
This OAS, “without the USA or Canada”, at its Summit in Buenos Aires, was emptied by its owners.
Neither Ortega, nor Maduro, nor the Mexican president attended.
It is that the interests of Central America, the Caribbean and South America are very different and Lula avoids the ideological simplifications to which Alberto Fernández is prone.
The realities of Chile, Peru, Honduras and Colombia have little in common with countries with governments that claim to be progressive, but which have become "heartless dictatorships", as the former socialist president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, described them.
These are difficult days for the Argentine president, who has also seen the demise of the unborn single currency with our gigantic neighbor.
The claim was ridiculous, but the Olivos tenant is not afraid of that adjective.
The joint information from Massa and Haddad, with more details from the Brazilian, but in absolute agreement, made it clear that the proposal by Maduro and Fernández, the kings of South American inflation, has neither now nor in the future a chance of prospering, at best. there could be a transactional mechanism.
The Minister of Economy of Brazil said: "The decision of both governments and both ministries is to start working, to take a first step in a long road that we must travel towards the goal of a common currency" and in case there were any doubts he specified: " You don't have the economic budgets for monetary integration like Europe did. I never thought a single currency was possible”.
Massa expressed himself in the same sense, but trying not to hurt the Argentine Head of State, a consideration, since he is the only Minister who is not "with a shot of a decree". Without him, the fragile setup of the Argentine economy explodes without remedy .
Lula, who is preparing for meetings with Biden and Xi Jinping, is interested in reviving UNASUR, an instrument at the service of Itamaraty's strategies.
The two superpowers of the 21st century see in Brazil, for different reasons, a necessary partner.
Our gigantic neighbor does not have to buy into the Argentine or Venezuelan nightmare and is preparing to become the "emerging sub-power", as it was called almost three decades ago.
Carlos Ruckauf is former Vice President of the Nation and former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship.