Considering that the North Atlantic has its NATO (which stretches in extent from [N to S] the North Pole to the Tropic of Cancer and [W to E] from the eastern Coast of North America to the eastern coast of the Meditteranean), a military/political organization that makes sure that all further post-WW2 conflicts in the North Atlantic Sphere of Influence will be solved on the primary by dialogue, compromise, partnership, and resolution (and secondarily by the force of arms), why doesn’t the South Atlantic (that is, the rest of the Ocean south of the Tropic of Cancer all the way down to the South Pole) have a SATO?
I mean, true, there IS a South Atlantic Zone of Peace and Cooperation that came about as a result of the need in the 80’s to defuse all further Cold War tensions which may have existed in that area of the world (among others), but I believe that if any of the countries in the South Atlantic, especially, if no one else, Brazil and South Africa, are ever going to come out of the long shadow of the Northern Hemisphere, it’ll only happen if the countries of (sub-Saharan) Africa and Latin America decide to come together in the same manner (or in an even closer cohesion) as the North Atlantic countries do, and make up their minds on how they plan to defuse the current crises of the Third World through either political or military means, among them being the lingering effects of slavery, colonization, imperialism, ethnocentrism, slave trading, dictatorship, and neo/post-colonialism.
Here’s a couple of links:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=africa+brazil&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&fr=FP-tab-web-t
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?ei=ISO-8859-1&c=&p=latin+america+africa
http://allafrica.com/latinamericaandafrica
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/newworld/africa/africa_americas_essay.htm
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Square/4236/
http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=4595
http://allafrica.com/stories/200402260772.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3234519.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3238979.stm
http://countrystudies.us/brazil/111.htm
http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/ab/Qbrazil-africa.RJGU_DN1.html
http://www.uaia.org/uaia/brazil/capoeira.htm
http://www.gonomad.com/features/0109/koch_dancing.html
http://www.gatewaytothearts.org/GTA_program_search.asp?ProgID=12
http://www.nyo.unep.org/ga55/res49.htm
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=73195
http://www.ictsd.org/weekly/04-03-10/story3.htm
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/science/invest-strub.html
http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=3195
http://www.un.int/brazil/speech/02-cl-57agnu-nepad-1609.html
http://www.un.int/brazil/speech/01d-ltcm-56agnu-zopacas-2111.htm
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=20979
http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/business/0%2C2172%2C87177%2C00.html
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archives/L/2000/C/un002066.html
http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/articles/ngwane-nepad1.htm
http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~plarson/syllabi/others/saslave.html
http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No9/Mills.html
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0%2C1367%2C58274%2C00.html
http://www.redmercosur.org.uy/Index03/sacu_program.htm
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=6722
Ah SATO. I like that.
You’re right, but since all those countries have puppets as leaders and are basically controlled by rulers in NATO, it won’t happen.
(I just spit water all over my desk when I read that you were born in 1987.)
Well at least a few countries are trying to come out from under NATO’s shadow. Lula, for example. He may actually be the best thing that has happened to Brazil since Dom Pedro II. I read about how Brazil anda couple of other countries of the South walked out of that WTO conference in Cancun a while back in protest towards the refusal of the North to loosen their stranglehold on the world’s resources. Ever since then, his closest foreign ally has actually been the governments in Luanda, Maputo, and, of course, Pretoria. Brazil and SA have been discussing the possibility of a free distribution of Brazilian-made generic ARVS to the African continent, as well as gestures toward freer trade between Mercosur and the SADC.
And I hope that this is JUST the tip of the iceberg for both Lula and Brazil.