South America Dumps Dollar; Wants Nukes to Protect Oil from US Invasion

Brazil, now the power center of the South American alliance of nations (USAN), has expressed their intention of arming themselves against the United States to protect their offshore oil deposits. Those concerns extend to defending the sparsely populated and resource-rich Amazon region from US invasion and seizure under the Doctrine of Manifest Destiny.

 

Those worries have grown. Last year, Bush reactivated the US Navy’s 4th Fleet and deployed it to menace the coast of Brazil, the site of Brazil's new oil fields. Bush also attempted to push through a Free Trade Agreement with Columbia, which (in the small print) included a prospective agreement to allow US military units access to seven bases in Colombia, Brazil’s neighbor.

 

This policy continues, of course, because South America is sitting on OUR oil. And Americans continue to be clueless about this repeating pattern happening, literally, under their noses. This time the false flag will be "drug trafficking." Until we stop supporting the Gov-Co war-porn narrative (like the Afghanistan nonsense, for example), we can expect more of the same, with our military kids again being used as meat targets to make the Defense Sector rich.

 

In September 2009, the UN Security Council passed a US-sponsored resolution aimed at stopping countries with nuclear technology from making atomic bombs. This did not sit well with Brazil.

 

Brazil's acting president, José Alencar, told Brazilian reporters that's he in favor that Brazil build its own atomic bomb. For him nuclear weapons are an important dissuasion factor and would give Brazil more respectability.

 

"A nuclear weapon used as dissuasive instrument is of great significance for a country that has 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) of borders in the west and has a territorial sea and, now, there's this pre-salt sea with an area of 4 million square kilometers (1.4 million square miles)," said Alencar.

 

All the recent oil findings by Brazil should be reason for caution, he argues: "This stirs international greed. Now everything is all right, but we don't know what tomorrow will bring. It costs a lot, but readiness is costly."

 

Besides deterrence, nuclear weapons “give more respectability”, Alencar said, citing the example of Pakistan, a poor nation that “has a seat in various international entities, precisely for having an atomic bomb.”

 

According to Alencar, Brazil would use its nukes only for peaceful purposes, only to protect the country from international attacks. He makes a very good point. As recently as 2004, the US was positioning itself to return Brazil to a colonial plantation.

 

For more that a century, the US has intervened in Latin American affairs, both directly and covertly. In the 1960s, we created chaos in the region under the pretext of fighting against Communism. In 1973, we blamed our intrusion on drug trafficking. In 2001, we said we were disrupting their lives to fight against terrorism.

 

The US Department of State has also proved bountiful in the development of tools to implement its self-serving but regionally destructive policies: it created diverse state agencies (CIA, DEA, NSA), various foundations (Ford, Rockefeller), and the School of the Americas. The US strategy, of course, has been to block the consolidation of Latin America's national and regional policies. A "South American Union" is perceived by the US to be in conflict with its own economic interests, specifically hegemony over the natural resources of the Western hemisphere.

 

A June 2009 policy paperout of Argentina described it this way:

 

During the eight years of the Bush administration, the rampant weakening of the US allowed part of Latin America to strengthen intra-regional ties. It marks the loss of US hegemony in the region. During this period, the region established new commercial relationships with China and the European Union; and, on the other hand, Venezuela established strong bonds with countries like Iran, China, and Russia.

 

The current dynamics allow the launch of a new geopolitical order....

 

Today, after the failure of the Washington Consensus and the neoliberal measures that it recommended, the twelve countries that conform South America are achieving independent integration, patterned after the European Union.Although not widely reported in the United States, the Union of South American Nations (USAN) began to coalesce. Their founding statement was signed on December 9, 2004. Their Constitution was approved on May 23, 2008. The structure of the Union is formed by a general secretariat established in Quito (Ecuador); a unique parliament in Cochabamba (Bolivia); a temporary presidency; a board of chiefs of state and government (supreme organ, deliberative, requiring unanimity for decision-making); a board of ministers of foreign affairs; and a board of delegates.

 

The Union's goal is to strengthen political dialog between the Member States and participate internationally in the design of a new geopolitical world order -- one in which South America is a major force. For now, Brazil is at the center.

 

 

 

DEFENDING AGAINST A US ATTACK

 

Latin America's history and experiences make them keenly aware of imperial powers that regularly invade and occupy nations in order to seize control of their resources. Beyond the region's substantial uranium reserves, South America has a great deal to protect and defend against known usurpers like the United States.

 

South America’s economic potential is enormous. The region boasts an extension of 17.6 million km2. Its diverse territory nests equally diverse ecosystems like the Caribbean, Amazonia, Andes, Altiplano, Pantanal, Pampa, Cerrado, and Patagonia. The population rises to 377 million, representing 67% of all Latin America and 6% of the total world population. Furthermore, it is linguistically integrated, given that almost all speak Spanish or Portuguese. Its Gross Domestic Product is approximately 3.800 thousand million USD. The region holds one of the largest reserves of fresh water and biodiversity in the world, as well as immense energetic, mineral, fishing, and agricultural richness.

 

Several South American nations have large hydrocarbon resources. Argentina has long ago achieved self-sufficiency. Brazil accomplished it recently and with new offshore findings in its territorial sea, is headed toward becoming an oil power. Peru and Bolivia, with enormous gas reservoirs and very low consumption, are distinct exporters. Venezuela is South America’s Saudi Arabia.

 

Yes, Venezuela is an asset and important Member of the South American Union.

 

In the interests of security, Brazil proposed the creation of the South American Defense Council. This initiative consolidates Member's security policies and reaffirms their sovereignty and rights over the goods and resources of the region. It was signed on March 10, 2009 in Santiago de Chile. Given the reactivation of the US Fourth Fleet off the coast of Brazil, the US violation of Venezuela’s airspace, and the US attempt to install a military base in Palanquero, Colombia, plus those already existent in the region seeking to maintain US regional hegemony -- the need for this coordinated defense policy is evident.

 

A key issue for all of South America is acquiring advance weaponry to deter the United States from an invasion or blockade. However, South America's vast wealth in resources has also attracted many international friends who are more than willing to help. Like Iran, Brazil already enriches its own uranium for domestic use, but it has also acquired fighter jets and military ordinance from an array of nations. In August, France stepped forward to provide Brazil with a nuclear submarine and a complete technology transfer:

 

After over a year of negotiations, Brazil and France have nailed down an agreement that will give Brazil four French diesel-electric Scorpene submarines, and technology from France to enable the construction of, in effect, a fifth, nuclear powered, "Scorpene". In return, with French help, Brazil will complete development of a nuclear power plant small enough to fit into something like the new, 4,700 ton French Barracuda nuclear attack subs.

 

This is described as a strategic defense alliance, which involves France helping build demand for French weapons in Brazil. France is particularly eager to sell Brazil Rafale jet fighters. The submarines, 50 Cougar helicopters, technical assistance and technology transfer is believed to be costing Brazil over $10 billion.

 

Brazil says it is willing to spend all this to improve its fleet, in large part because oil has been discovered off the coast of Brazil, and must be defended.

 

 

SOUTH AMERICA ABANDONS THE DOLLAR

 

A key component of freedom and security for South America is disassociating themselves as much as possible from the United States. Nowhere is this more evident that South America's determination to rid itself of the US Dollar.

 

South America has initiated a process to reduce dependency on the US Dollar for trade. The questions arising around the health of the Dollar as refuge currency has generated proposals in the G-20 to replace this currency with one that is financially sound.

 

On September 8, 2008 Argentina and Brazil were the first to sign onto an initiative to allow foreign commerce transactions to be made directly in local currencies. On the same wavelength, on May 6, 2009, Brazil agreed with Uruguay on abandoning the Dollar for their commercial exchange. Brazil is also studying with Colombia the possibility of swapping USD for local currencies for their commercial activities.

 

During the London G-20 summit, Brazil directly proposed to China that the Chinese Renminbi and the Brazilian Real be used as a settlement currency, and that the US dollar be abandoned. Argentina and China also agreed to a three-year currency swap totaling 70 billion yuan, ($10 billion USD).

 

To replace the IMF, the Bank of the South initiative was put forth by President Hugo Chavez, together with his Argentine peer Nestor Kirchner, The Memorandum of Agreement was signed in February 2007. Brazil, initially opposed to the idea, finally injected it with dynamism by funding it. The Bank of the South will form a new monetary unit for the entire South American Union.

 

It is necessary to stop the transfer of resources from the South to the North to have genuine funds for the region. The integration of South America demands an independent financial system -- free of the US Dollar at a time it is losing its role of international trading currency.

 

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