Brazil’s Foreign Minister: “Mercosur’s agreement with the EU is extremely important at a time of threats of trade wars”

Mauro Vieira (Rio de Janeiro, 73) took over the Brazilian Foreign Office portfolio in 2023 with the commission of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to return to international forums and to dialogue with everyone. As if he had spent two years in that task without ceasing, he arrived suffocated to the Brazilian Embassy in Madrid and ran the curtain of a window. “I like to see,” he says. His lightning visit to Spain, before taking a flight to Sou…

The history of the integration project in Latin America is long, dispersed, complex and fragmented. In fact, one could speak more of “integration projects”, in plural. Some are complementary and others contradictory to each other; a few remain alive and the majority have failed or have been abandoned. None, it seems, can be expected that it will achieve integration that will surpass, in the near future, mere intergovernmentality. Of all these in…