José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
Barack Obama came to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador last week. From there, he launched criticisms against the castrocommunist models of the region and congratulated the countries with democratic political systems. At the end of that trip, like two candidates vying to win over the electorate, Chavez announced a similar tour through Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia and Colombia, trying to reheat the anti-US sentiment and the sympathy for the Cuban-Venezuelan socialism.
Chavez's journey has the potential to make more noise than Obama's visit. Of the four countries to be visited, Bolivia is the place where Chavez has the greatest opportunity to cause more controversy, because Evo Morales is carrying, just at this moment, an intense campaign to recover the Bolivian coast, which surely will be supported by Chavez with his characteristic imprudence.
In another idea, the visit to Colombia and the non-visit to Brazil are events that should not be overlooked. The stop in the land of Santander evidence that relations between Caracas and Bogota are narrowing, despite ideological differences. While the non-visit to Brazil has a contrary interpretation. In his journey through the South, Chavez will border the Latin America's largest economy without going to say hello to President Dilma Rousseff, making it clear to Itamaraty that Chavez and his petrodollars are not happy with Obama's recent visit to Brazil, nor with the distance the new Brazilian president has shown with the "Bolivarian revolution."
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