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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) ― A new South American union was born Friday as leaders of the
region s 12 nations set out to create a continental
parliament.
Some see the new Union of South American...
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) ― A new South American union was born Friday as leaders of the
region s 12 nations set out to create a continental
parliament.
Some see the new Union of South American Nations,
known as Unasur, as a regional version of the
European Union.
Summit host Brazil wants it to help
coordinate defense affairs across South America, and
Venezuela s Hugo Chavez calls it a counterweight to the
United States.
"The No.
1 enemy of the union of the south is the
empire of the United States," Chavez said, claiming that
the U.
S.
is "trying to generate wars in South America" to
"divide and conquer.
"
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva invited
other Latin American and Caribbean nations to join the
venture.
"Unasur is born, open to all the region, born
under the signs of diversity and pluralism," he said.
But South America still faces its own divisive issues.
Unasur s first secreta
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