http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/news/stories/11/27/no-more-dictating-to-south-america-%E2%80%93lula/Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday declared that developed countries can no longer dictate “homework” to South America.
He made the remark while addressing the opening ceremony of the Fourth Regular Summit of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Liliendaal.
Lula, who makes way for president-elect Dilma Rousseff in January, recalled that many South American leaders suffered the ignominy of being dictated to by “any third rate secretary” on what they should do and what should be their “homework”.
“Today they don’t get to do that anymore, to give us the recipe because they know that we are like them. Our difference is that we today have much more sovereignty and self determination than we had 10 years ago,” he said via an interpreter.
According to Lula, his country created some 2.4 million jobs between January and September of this year while other Latin American countries are doing well but the developed nations are finding it a challenge.
“They knew how to solve the Argentinean crisis, they knew how to solve the crisis in Peru, they knew how to solve the crisis in Mexico, they knew how to solve the crisis in Brazil but when the crises are in their countries they don’t know how to solve their own crisis,” he stated.
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