Foreign Ministers of Chile and Brazil support the Bioceanic Corridor Between Brazil and Chile

The Foreign Minister of Chile, Teodoro Ribera, and his Brazilian counterpart, Ernesto Araujo, reaffirmed the interest of both countries to develop the Bioceanic Road Corridor that will link Porto Murtinho (Brazil), via Paraguay and northern Argentina, with the Port of Antofagasta (Chile).

"The crossing of the Andes mountain range and the Chilean ports are fully ready and operational to receive Brazilian cargo," said Foreign Minister Ribera.

"In the bilateral sphere, we agree in the interest of moving towards a strategic relationship, which will strengthen long-term ties between both countries, looking towards 2040," said the Chilean Foreign Minister.

Regarding trade relations, Ribera said Chile is the second largest trading partner of Brazil and, in turn, this country is the first for Chilean international trade.

In that regard, he stressed “the importance of putting into effect the Free Trade Agreement signed in November 2018, and that it needs to be approved by both Congresses”.

In addition, they reaffirmed the interest of promoting the process of convergence between the Pacific Alliance and Mercosur, within the framework of the respective Pro Tempore Presidencies that Chile and Brazil exercise in said integration mechanisms.

The 1,800 kms bi-oceanic route that will connect Chilean Pacific ports with Brazilian Atlantic ports and cross the Paraguayan Chaco, will reduce merchandise transport between the two oceans to three days.

Nowadays, ships that follow the routes to Asia, passing through Cape Horn, take an average of 13 days.

Source: PortalPortuario, ABC.com

Chile signs Free Trade Agreement with Brazil

Main recipient of Chilean investment and largest trading partner in the region: The figures of the economic relationship with Brazil.

Last November, both countries signed a free trade agreement, which was negotiated in "record" time, and which must be ratified by Congress.

This agreement between both countries addresses issues as diverse as telecommunications, electronic commerce, services, environment, employment and gender, as well as economic cooperation.

"The agreement incorporates new chapters on technology, cybersecurity, in terms of Antarctic collaboration, in many fields that we have managed to advance, including the firm will of our countries to unite the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, from Puerto Murtinho, going through Paraguay and Argentina, to the ports in the north of our country, "said President Sebastián Piñera, on that occasion.

Hence, the importance for both countries of maintaining solid commercial relations, whose commercial exchange last year amounted to USD 10,066 million. Brazil - a market of 208 million inhabitants - is Chile's first commercial partner in Latin America, and the main recipient of direct investment abroad, which stands out for its capacity to generate employment, which already reaches 159,000 people, according to Direcon figures.

The attractiveness of Brazil as a destination for Chilean investments has been evident during the sexennium between 2010 and 2017, when Chilean companies accumulated investments for USD 17,231 million, that is, the figure represents 36.2% of the total invested in the world in that period. "The agreement, negotiated and signed last year, due to the sense of urgency imposed by both governments, will enter into the Congress in the coming weeks.

But not only at the government level are constant efforts to expand political and economic relations. In fact, under this framework of Jair Bolsonaro's visit to Chile, a delegation of national businessmen met with the Brazilian President.

To see some of the most important figures of the commercial relations of Chile and Brazil check the infographic below:

Source: Emol.com 

https://www.emol.com/noticias/Economia/2019/03/23/942085/Las-cifras-que-marcan-las-relaciones-economicas-entre-Chile-y-Brasil.html

PROSUR - Chilean President calls on South American leaders to defend ideas of freedom and respect for human rights

Santiago de Chile - Chilean President Sebastian Piñera encourages the Latin American right and calls his supporters to be "warriors" in the face of 21st century socialism.

During his speech at the Santiago Forum, the President summoned the leaders of the sector to defend the ideas of freedom in each of their countries to "counteract" the influence of the left in the continent.

President Piñera made a clear call to the leaders and right-wing parties in Latin America to defend freedom and respect for human rights in their countries, with the aim of "counteracting" the ideas promoted by the socialism of the 21st century that led to failure in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

During his speech at the Forum of Santiago, organized by the Chilean conglomerate "Chile Vamos", in which they called representatives of different collectives and study centers of the sector at the regional level, the President underscored the need for everyone to act in a coordinated manner to defeat the ideas that the left has permeated in the countries of the continent.

After referring to the political crisis in Venezuela, Piñera recalled that "ten years ago virtually our entire continent was under the influence of misguided ideas of the Sao Paulo Forum, under the auspices of the Cuban Communist Party and the Brazilian Workers' Party, which preached ideas that have failed in the whole world. "

"The fall of the Soviet Union is the best expression of the failure of twentieth century socialism: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, are the best expressions of the failure of 21st century socialism and for that reason, because there is no evil that lasts 100 years, I am sure that the dictatorships and especially that of Venezuela has his days numbered", he said.

In this context, the head of state said that "today we are sowing a seed to counteract the bad teachings and bad ideas that unfortunately spread and dominated our Latin America from the Forum of Sao Paulo and replace them with the ideas of freedom, respect for people. "

"The State must be at the service of the common good and of the people, and not try to use them or manipulate them in causes that we all know have not only been wrong, but have only led to pain, suffering and death wherever they may have been applied", he said.

In his opinion, "we have to play the mission that corresponds to us: To be the warriors, the ideologists, those who defend our ideas with conviction, with will and with enthusiasm and in that way we will be able to build a Latin America and in each one from our countries more free, prosperous and just societies".

Cuba and Venezuela are dictatorships

During his speech, the president stopped in the Venezuelan situation, saying that "today we have brutal dictatorships and that is something that for a long time the countries of Latin America did not know how to confront: 60 years in Cuba and more than two decades of a democracy that it was transformed into a dictatorship, as it is the case of Venezuela. "

"Because Venezuela and Cuba, let's say it with force and clarity, are dictatorships: there are no political freedoms, no human rights are respected, no separation of powers, no freedom of expression and today we have known sad news, which is the kidnapping of Roberto Marrero, who is the chief of the cabinet of President Juan Guaidó", he stressed.

The President stressed that "once again the Venezuelan dictatorship shows its most miserable and most perverse face to the whole world, I was in Cúcuta and many people ask what was achieved." Many things were achieved: unite, motivate and revive the opposition democracy in Venezuela"

"The world saw a President trying to get humanitarian aid in a peaceful way, medicine and food that the Venezuelan people needed urgently, and it saw, on the other hand, a dictator who brutally repressed his own people and who showed the ugliest and most miserable face of that dictatorship", he concluded.

Source: emol.com

Who is Jair Bolsonaro ?

Bolsonaro is a candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Brazil and always appears first in the intentions of votes in all Brazilian states, after former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was declared ineligible.

Born on March 21st, 1955 in the city of Campinas in São Paulo, Jair Mesias Bolsonaro is captain of the Brazilian Army Reserve and Federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro in his seventh term.

The controversial Federal Deputy is known for his nationalist discourse, conservative right, defender of family values and more severe punishment of the criminals.

Descendant of Italians Bolsonaro is the son of Perci Geraldo Bolsonaro and Olinda Bonturi.

Politics

The political career of Jair Mesias Bolsonaro began in 1988 when he was elected councilor for the city of Rio de Janeiro, at the time by the Christian Democratic Party (PDC).

Already in 1990, due to his performance as a municipal parliamentarian, he was elected a Federal Deputy by the PDC.

In 1993 Jair Bolsonaro was one of the founders of the Progressive Party (PPR) that merged two parties the PDC and PDS.

Bolsonaro was reelected in 1994 and already in 1995 he joined the Brazilian Progressive Party (PPB).

In the year 2002 for the fourth time a federal deputy, the deputy left his former PPB party and joined the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB). Shortly after the deputy leaves the PTB and migrates to the late Liberal Front Party (PFL).

In his parliamentary mandates, he stood out in the fight against child erotization in schools and for a greater disciplinary rigor in these establishments, for the reduction of the criminal age, for citizen's armament and the right to self-defense, for legal security in policing and for Christian values.

Political Proposals

Among all the proposals of Jair Mesias Bolsonaro, we can find the following:

Privatizations

One of the main intentions of Jair Bolsonaro is to make a program of privatizations in Brazil.

Labour Reform

He voted in favor of the proposal in the Chamber of Deputies. He already informed in interviews that it would be better for the worker to have more employment than more benefits.

Public Security

This is one of the strengths of Bolsonaro's candidacy, that is, it aims to fight crime, aims to make the hardening of criminal laws and give more strength to the police.

Attack to Bolsonaro

On September 6th, 2018, Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed in the abdomen at the time he was in the middle of a crowd campaigning in the mining town of Juiz de Fora. Bolsonaro was taken to the Casa de Misericordia, where he underwent surgery. The blade reached the small intestine and the large intestine. After the surgery, Bolsonaro was transferred to the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo. On Sep 13th, after being diagnosed with adherence in the intestine, Bolsonaro underwent emergency surgery and is in recovery. The aggressor was arrested and taken to the Federal Police to give clarifications.

The Candidates with the Highest Possibilities

Fernando Haddad will obtain the votes of who, opposed with a male chauvinist, racist and homophobic Bolsonaro finds in the candidate of the left the only way that Bolsonaro does not come to power.

Jair Bolsonaro will get the votes of who, fearing that Brazil approaches the Venezuelan model and the Workers' Party retakes the power that allowed him to empty the State, find in the "Donald Trump without money", the option to avoid including the former President Lula da Silva is not only pardoned as he could end up as Chief of Staff in a possible presidency of Haddad.

Results of the Presidential Elections - First Round (Oct 7th 2018)

The candidate of the right has capitalized on the dissatisfaction of the Brazilians with a radical discourse that his detractors claim to be racist, homophobic and misogynist. Today is the favorite to win the second round.

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- Biografia Resumida
- Ebiografia
- Infobae