The announcement must be made at the 100day government meeting. The resumption of Unasur is one of Lula’s campaign proposals, which has always defended the political alliance of countries in the region
Lula this Thursday in Brasilia
BRASILIA (Portal) President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will announce Brazil’s formal return to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) during the 100day government meeting on Monday, possibly with the holding of a summit of representatives of the region in Brasília at the end of May, sources familiar with the matter told Portal with.
The resumption of Unasur is one of Lula’s campaign proposals, which has always defended the political alliance of countries in the region. The bloc, founded in 2004 as the South American Community of Nations and transformed into Unasur in 2008, was formally abandoned by Brazil in 2019 by decree during the government of Jair Bolsonaro, who viewed it as a club of leftist countries.
Without having made the decision of Congress as it would be regular membership was approved by parliamentarians in 2011 Brazil’s return to the bloc is internally easy, only with the repeal of Bolsonaro’s decree.
Several countries in the region, then mostly in the hands of rightwing presidents, also left the bloc Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay and Paraguay. The then President of Chile, Sebástian Piñera, tried to organize the region in another bloc, Prosul, which excluded Venezuela, but the initiative was unsuccessful.
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According to the sources heard by Portal, Brazil will start the bureaucratic steps to officially return to the organization and is in contact with the other countries so that they return as well.
There is no set date for the Brasilia meeting and invitations to the 12 countries have not yet been sent out, but requests are being made for a meeting in Brasilia at the end of May after Lula has returned from Japan, where he is attending between the 19th and 21st .G7 meeting.
The summit has been dubbed a meeting of heads of state, and not exactly by Unasur because not all countries are likely to have completed procedures for returning to the bloc by that date. However, it is intended to discuss exactly the goals and format of the new Unasur from now on.
The bloc had even built a physical headquarters in Quito now deactivated and a structure that included a South American Defense School, a center for strategic studies and a health institute. The bloc based its collaboration mostly on health and infrastructure, but now the Brazilian president wants to put action on climate change at the heart of Unasur’s actions.
The last SecretaryGeneral of Unasur was former Colombian President Ernesto Samper, who left office in January 2017. Vehemently opposed to the impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff, Samper became persona non grata in Brasília as early as Michel Temer’s administration, which helped empty the bloc.
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