A giant stirs
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2752700
Jun 10th 2004 | BRASíLIA
From The Economist print edition
Brazil is bidding for big-power status. What sort of power does it
want to be?
IT IS a small force, but of huge symbolic significance. This month,
1,200 Brazilian troops arrived in Haiti, the country's biggest foreign
military deployment since the second world war. Brazil is commanding a
United Nations peacekeeping force of 6,700 mainly Latin American
troops and 1,600 police which is taking over from American and French
forces in the Caribbean island. This marks a new departure. Brazil has
long been a gentle and introverted giant, content to be a bystander on
the world stage. Now that is changing.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the country's left-leaning president, is
carving out a role for Brazil as spokesman for poor countries, most
notably by founding the G20 group which lobbies for rich countries to
open up farm trade. His government is playing a more active role
across South America. And it is seeking a permanent seat on the UN
Security Council. "Brazil has begun to flex its muscles as a regional
superpower," says Miguel Díaz of the Centre for Strategic and
International Studies, a Washington-based think-tank.
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