the worth of continuity

José Bonifacio de Andrada y Silva (1763-1838), a member of the Portuguese the Aristocracy, was a naturalist, poet and thinker who seconded Emperor Pedro I as prime minister in 1822, on the time of Brazil’s independence.

His specialty was minerals and he found four new ones – together with petalite from which lithium is extracted which could be very helpful right now – and certainly if we write the “Historical past of the South American Nation” we are going to put it subsequent to San Martin, Bolivar, O’ Higgins, Sucre and Artigas, as one of many fathers of the “Patria Grande”.

One other Silva – no relation – Luiz Inacio Lula da SilvaMetallic employee, from Pernambuco and socialist, assumed the presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil for the third time on the primary day of 2023.

return Brazil didn’t abolish slavery till 1888. and a 12 months later the republic was proclaimed. Each the brand new president – ​​Manuel Deodoro de Fonseca – and his ministers have been positivists and Freemasons. A number of of them had based the positivist church in 1881, impressed by the concepts of the French thinker Auguste Comte, summed up within the following phrase: “Love as precept, Order as basis, Progress as purpose…”

It’s Minister Benjamin Fixed B. De Magalhaes who proposes inserting the slogan “Order and Progress” on the brand new nationwide flag, impressed by Comte’s republican and positivist concepts.

The break with “imperial order by the desire of God” was very nice, however there have been crucial parts of continuity: the Viscount of Maua (1813-1889) was the good promoter of financial protectionism throughout the Empire, as a financial institution clerk, metal trade, delivery, railway, fuel and electrical energy clerk. This impulse was not interrupted.

protectionism and populism

Lula means too an enormous breakbecause of his ideological background, however his concepts are immediately associated to the Brazilian protectionism of the 19th the final president earlier than the army dictatorship of 1964.

Other than the repressive excesses and the absence of republican establishments, the ideas of “order and progress” have been by no means interrupted by Emperor Pedro II till the “democratic transition” of President José Sarney in 1985 and the years that adopted institutional and financial consolidation based by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso since 1989.

Right now it’s President Lula’s flip to have the chance to lastly place Brazil on the record of world leaders and to spearhead a renewed Mercosur with a South American vocation.

Argentina can and may accompany Brazil at this stage with our important contribution of pure, technological and human sources.

regional integration

Our area should face the problem of regional integration and opening as much as the world with out prejudice and complexities. The bioenergy wealth, meals, minerals and expertise of our folks will allow us to tackle the duties that fall to us on this mysterious 21st century.

It will likely be an incredible alternative for Argentina to stabilize our economic system and develop once more. For comparability functions solely, in Argentina the greenback was buying and selling at $63.00 in December 2019… at $340.00 in December 2022.

In Brazil 1 greenback was four.15 reais in December 2019 … in December 2022 it was 5.17 reais.

To ensure that the “peso” to converge with the actual and for us to intention for a “widespread forex”, Argentines must make an incredible effort of self-discipline and work.

It’s our strategic partnership with Brazil, how we should always see ourselves. Our 1994 Nationwide Structure, in its artwork. 75, sub.24, reveals the trail of integration as a part of our personal identification.

Welcome President Lula!!! Depend on us on this thrilling journey that has simply begun….

Diego Guelar, Former Argentine Ambassador to Brazil, the US, the EU and China.

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