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On 14 February Brazil’s President Lula de Silva visited President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela to sign a 'strategic alliance' agreement, which included both a handsome trade-package and a commitment to work towards greater regional integration. Chávez and Lula are the most eager of Latin America’s presidents to boost regional integration. The South American Community of Nations (CSN), launched in Cuzco in December, is one of Lula’s pet projects and chimes with Chávez’s Bolivarian rhetoric. Despite the CSN’s inauspicious start (four presidents did not turn up for the summit and Lula chided Chávez for his public expressions of impatience at the speed of the integration process), the Brazilian president’s visit to Venezuela is part of a mini-tour designed to shore up support for integration. Guyana and Suriname are the next stops.
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