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    During breakfast with editors from the Financial Times who organized a seminar on Brazil, Lula was critical of the recent military cooperation agreement signed between Colombia and the US and again strongly demanded guarantees that operations will be limited to Colombian territory. "We were surprised by the transfer of military bases from Manta, in Ecuador to Colombia" admitted Lula. "We are not questioning Colombia's sovereignty but we demand that in the agreement signed with the US, it's explicit, that we want international law guarantees; that those bases as a matter of principle will operate inside Colombian and not along border areas with neighboring countries." Full Article at Brazzil Magazine
    We were surprised by the transfer of military bases from Manta, in Ecuador to Colombia
    Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva – Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva SOURCE: Brazzil Magazine 4 weeks ago
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Obama Hasn't Kept Promises on Latin America, Says Brazil's Lula
  1. How do you stop people along the border trading?
    SOURCE: Brazzil Magazine 4 weeks ago
  2. But I consider very important that the United States should have more interest in Latin America so we can definitively implement a dynamics of peace and links with the continent
    SOURCE: Brazzil Magazine 4 weeks ago
  3. with concerns over Iraq and Afghanistan and the health scheme in Congress, it doesn't leave much time to address Latin America.
    SOURCE: Brazzil Magazine 4 weeks ago
  4. I'm sure I can get them to sit together in Manaus.
    SOURCE: Brazzil Magazine 4 weeks ago
  5. I don't know if the US should be concerned about Chavez or if Chavez should be concerned about the US. One position fuels the other.
    Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva – Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva SOURCE: Brazzil Magazine 4 weeks ago
  6. I told Obama after the meeting that he had given the kick off to establish a more productive relation with Latin America. The fact is nothing happened since, but the coup in Honduras
    SOURCE: Brazzil Magazine 4 weeks ago
  7. We are not questioning Colombia's sovereignty but we demand that in the agreement signed with the US, it's explicit, that we want international law guarantees; that those bases as a matter of principle will operate inside Colombian and not along border areas with neighboring countries.
    SOURCE: Brazzil Magazine 4 weeks ago

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