{"id":72895,"date":"2011-04-03T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/03\/echec-de-bho-au-bresil\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T06:00:17","slug":"echec-de-bho-au-bresil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/03\/echec-de-bho-au-bresil\/","title":{"rendered":"Echec de BHO au Br\u00e9sil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h4>Echec de BHO au Br\u00e9sil<\/h4>\n<p>A la fin du mois, alors que l&rsquo;attaque contre la Libye de Kadhafi \u00e9tait lanc\u00e9e, BHO se trouvait en Am\u00e9rique latine, au Br\u00e9sil principalement, jouant au football avec des gosses des <em>favelas<\/em> de Rio notamment. Accessoirement, tout de m\u00eame, il rencontra la nouvelle pr\u00e9sidente, depuis le 1er janvier, Dilma Rousseff. Les strat\u00e8ges du d\u00e9partement d&rsquo;Etat, suivis par les commentateurs-Syst\u00e8me qui vont bien, avaient conclu que l&rsquo;occasion \u00e9tait bonne, que Rousseff \u00e9tait plus accommodante que Lula, qu&rsquo;on pouvait r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer le Br\u00e9sil <em>on board<\/em>, dans les vastes entreprises am\u00e9ricanistes. Ils s&rsquo;\u00e9taient donc tromp\u00e9s<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tGreg Grandin tire les le\u00e7ons de cette visite, sur <em>AlJazeera.net<\/em>, le <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/indepth\/opinion\/2011\/03\/201133014435832732.html#\" class=\"gen\">30 mars 2011<\/a>. La crise libyenne, et l&rsquo;intervention US tr\u00e8s, tr\u00e8s mal per\u00e7ue au Br\u00e9sil, a servi de catalyseur conjoncturel au raidissement br\u00e9silien par rapport \u00e0 ce qu&rsquo;on en attendait \u00e0 Washington. Rousseff n&rsquo;est pas Lula (bien que tr\u00e8s proche de lui), mais il n&rsquo;est pas assur\u00e9 que ce soit une sin\u00e9cure pour les USA<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>The Washington Post, the New York Times, and National Public Radio, along with a host of other newspapers, cable news commentators, and blogs, all predicted that Obama, the US&rsquo;s first African American president, and Rousseff, Brazil&rsquo;s first woman leader, would find common ground, reversing the deterioration of diplomatic relations that had begun under Rousseff&rsquo;s predecessor, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Rousseff, it was reported, would be eager to use the trip to distance herself from her political patron, Lula. Though she was a member of a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organisation opposing a US-backed dictatorship during her youth in the 1970s, Brazil&rsquo;s new leader had, according to the Washington Post, a practical approach to governance and foreign relations after eight years of the flamboyant Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.<\/em>  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>She&rsquo;s a different person and has a different style, remarked the chairman of Goldman Sachs asset management. She was warm and would welcome Obama cordially (has it really gotten to the point where the US, which for decades presided imperiously over the international community, is today just happy that foreign leaders aren&rsquo;t rude when its presidents come calling?)<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Unfortunately for Washington the reality has departed from the narrative. Brazil, under Rousseff, continues largely to follow its own diplomatic lights.  Even before Obama landed in Rio, Brazil, as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, joined with China and Germany to abstain from the vote authorising all necessary measures against Libya&rsquo;s Muammar Gaddafi.<\/em>  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Since then, its opposition to the bombing has hardened.  According to the Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS), Brazil&rsquo;s foreign ministry  still, for the most part, staffed by the diplomats who charted Lula&rsquo;s foreign policy  recently issued a statement condemning the loss of civilian lives and calling for the start of dialogue.<\/em>  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Lula himself has endorsed Dilma&rsquo;s critical position on Libya, going further in his condemnation of the intervention <\/em>[]  <em>These comments were the first indication that the ex-president, still enormously popular and influential in Brazil, planned to continue to openly weigh in on his successor&rsquo;s foreign Policy.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>On other important issues as well, Brazil continues push back against Washington.<\/em>  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The US-controlled International Monetary Fund (IMF), for example, is demanding that Brazil, one of the world&rsquo;s fastest growing economies, calm bond market concerns about inflation by reining in social spending. Dilma&rsquo;s economic team has so far balked.  It argues instead that inflation can be controlled by government regulation of hot money\u00a0\u00bb that is, the ability of foreign capital to place speculative bets on, and reap enormous profits off of, Brazil&rsquo;s currency.<\/em> []   <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Likewise, Brazil continues to be the main obstacle to jumpstarting the Doha Round of the world trade talks, demanding that the US and Europe lower tariffs to the products and commodities of the developing world.   While graciously hosting the US president, Rousseff nonetheless strongly criticized Washington&rsquo;s ability to preach free trade while practicing protectionism, demanding that the US open its markets to Brazilian imports such as ethanol, steel, and orange juice.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"signature\"><em>dedefensa.org<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Echec de BHO au Br\u00e9sil A la fin du mois, alors que l&rsquo;attaque contre la Libye de Kadhafi \u00e9tait lanc\u00e9e, BHO se trouvait en Am\u00e9rique latine, au Br\u00e9sil principalement, jouant au football avec des gosses des favelas de Rio notamment. Accessoirement, tout de m\u00eame, il rencontra la nouvelle pr\u00e9sidente, depuis le 1er janvier, Dilma Rousseff.&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4909,4965,4434,6902,3676,10990,10989],"class_list":["post-72895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ouverture-libre","tag-echange","tag-fmi","tag-libre","tag-libye","tag-lula","tag-raidissement","tag-rouseef"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}