Daggers at the Brazil's throat

Brazil has been the foe of accusations about imperialism by severalSouth American countries. Bolivia was the first one, now it is timefor Paraguay to do it, however the greatest danger focus the forests,where the risk of break down has been the worry of militaryauthorities. Brazil must decide which attitude to take about theinternational context because only the nations who battle for thewelfare of its people and national interest will remain as globalpowerful nation, with the energy issue focus of any nation thataspires to be a powerful one.

Perhaps the energy power of bordering countries becomes a growingproblem because we are about to need the Bolivian gas more and more.The energy situation is not worst because our economic growth over thelast two decades was not high. The only Brazil has only reachedself-supplying about oil because they stopped growing, however thecurrent economic and potential growth for the future will lead us toproduce more energy for factories and people. We must defend hard ourgoals. We will lead nations to raise up against the "Brazilianimperialism."

Brazil has changed; it is no longer a banana style republic, coffeeexporter. Nowadays we are a capital and technology exporter nation.Our aspirations and responsibilities are different now, so it isunacceptable that authorities, human rights defenders and the pressdefend Bolivia, Paraguay and the South America Indians, betrayingBrazilians goals, as we have seen. Such things show how our elites arefar from historical reality we are in.

Our difficult choice is about to move forward or backwards in order tobecome a real regional power. To get an idea of our energy needs, MatoGrosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande doSul depend 100% of Bolivian gas and 91% of gas consumed by the SãoPaulo. Another problem is the energy created by Itapú's hydroelectricpower plant, which produces fourteen thousand megawatts of energy,shared by a half with Brazil and Paraguay. Paraguay needs only a smallpart of it and sell the excess to Brazil for a small amount inParaguay's opinion. Paraguay receives a brute amount of 350 milliondollars, but thinking it should be at least 1.8 billion dollars.Anyway, the amount received pays for 30% of current government expenses.

The Paraguay's incoming for each citizen are less than 1% of Brazil.Paraguay has chosen Brazil as the scapegoat to raise votes. The twocandidates have chosen as campaign central point the profit of Itaipú.The ex-bishop Fernando Lugo was elected with a more radical speech,defeating Blanca Ovular, ex-education minister and Colorado Party'smember, the leader over the last 60 years, which has only raise insearches because changed the speech, taking what Lugo calls"expropriation of wealth" as its own speech about Itaipú. Bothdefended the update of the 1975's treaty, which established a deal forthe construction of plant that provides Brazil 30% of thehydroelectric energy. Lugo is the favorite in rural areas, where mostof his voters are situated. He also raised the middle classes voteswith the speech against Brazil.

The Indians and the Amazon environment are another way to coerceBrazil, but this time the "actors" are the powerful countries. If the"pre-salt" is the promising sea exploration, we have the Amazon forestat ground, with Solimões basin, the third largest reserves of gas andthird largest oil and gas maker at Brazil. Nicknamed as Annatto oilprovince (650 km from Manaus), the area produces 53 thousand light oilbarrels a day, with more commercial value and easier refining. It isknown as "natural gasoline" because it is so light, powering engineswithout refining. The greatest wealth is natural gas, with aproduction about 10 million cubic meters a day, less than Campos andSantos basins only. In the heart of forest, Petrobras still has thelargest Brazilian cooking gas production, bottled in Coari (AM), thebiggest natural gas unit processed in Brazil. Every day, one thousandtons of cooking gas are produced, the equivalent of 84,600 bottleswith 13 kg each. It supplies the entire Amazon forest and it is soldin Northeast.

With all this energy power of Amazon forest added the mineral goods,the reservation of Raposa Serra do Sol, Roraima, named as the bordertracks by the ex-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 1998, andapproved in 2005 by the current President Lula. It shows our leadershave the same opinion. What we have now is the government and itsopposition challenging for domain, without a right purpose, ignoringthe daggers at our throats. Each of these politicians is sucking asmuch as possible from the blood of Brazilian people, leaving thenation in greater danger of its history, waiting for a coward elitethat uses arguments as: "Itamaraty should look at its long traditionof peaceful coexistence, the overcoming of this challenge".

We are facing countries that have already realized the weak rulingelite in Brazil, with no fiber for any kind of conflict, whichcertainly waive up parts of the country to maintain peace. Facingthese hungry foreign vultures, Brazilians have the duty to raise thestandard of nationalism and defend the county and wealth hard, facingall the consequences to put the Brazil at its right place IN thepowerful countries history.

MELQUISEDEC NASCIMENTO

THE HEAD OF BRAZILIAN LIBERAL ORGANIZATION - MOLIBRA