foto: António Cruz
Por telefone, quando ligou para o saudar pela vitória do último domingo nas eleições, Dilma convidou Humala a visitar o Brasil antes mesmo de tomar posse. Não deram cinco dias e o novo presidente do Peru já voou para o Planalto em pronta resposta ao convite, como se fossem necessárias mais provas do quanto faz parte da sua estratégia política a aproximação ao Brasil. Esteve reunido com Dilma, hoje, e amanhã vai até S. Paulo encontrar Lula, o homem que aponta repetidamente como a sua «grande inspiração». Depois segue para Uruguai, Paraguai, Argentina e Chile. Só numa terceira etapa, toma então o rumo do Equador, Venezuela e Bolívia, países de governos de esquerda mais radicais.
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A presidente Dilma Rousseff recebeu na manhã de hoje, no Palácio do Planalto, o presidente eleito do Peru, Ollanta Humala. Em sua primeira viagem internacional após a vitória nas urnas, Humala se esforçou em mostrar a imagem de político de esquerda moderado, mais em sintonia com o Brasil e distante da Venezuela, de Hugo Chávez. Dilma confirmou que estará na posse de Humala, em Lima, marcada para 28 de julho.
Logo após encontro com Dilma, Humala informou que visitará o ex-presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, amanhã, em São Paulo, e depois viajará para Uruguai, Paraguai, Argentina e Chile. Só depois, numa segunda etapa, visitará Equador, Venezuela e Bolívia, países de governos de esquerda mais radicais. "O Brasil é um parceiro estratégico, de muita importância no cenário mundial. Essa é a mensagem da nossa primeira viagem internacional", disse Humala.
Em busca de apoio dos mercados interno e externo, ele reafirmou que cumprirá todos os acordos e dará prioridade ao desenvolvimento econômico com inclusão social. No encontro com Dilma, Humala ouviu uma explanação da presidente sobre o Plano Estratégico de Fronteira, lançado ontem no Planalto, para reformular a segurança na região e combater o crime organizado. Na entrevista, Humala ressaltou a importância de parceria entre os dois países, que enfrentam problemas semelhantes, citando a desigualdade social, o narcotráfico e a falta de segurança.
O assessor de Assuntos Internacionais do Planalto, Marco Aurélio Garcia, disse que, independentemente de conotações ideológicas, o Brasil tem interesse em manter a aproximação com os demais países do continente. "A nossa presença no mundo não pode se dar sem a companhia dos outros países da América do Sul", disse. "O Brasil não está preocupado em ter influência na região, mas em desenvolver um projeto de integração", acrescentou.
via Agência Brasil
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Peru's Humala eyes social programs on Brazil visit
Peru's Ollanta Humala praised Brazil on Thursday as a successful economic model and sought to learn more about his neighbor's social welfare programs while on his first trip abroad as president-elect.
His stop in Brasilia, the first on a South American tour, was to showcase his transformation from an ally of Venezuela's socialist leader Hugo Chavez into a more moderate, market-friendly leftist.
"Brazil is a successful model that combined economic growth and social mobility," Humala said following a meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
Humala and Rousseff, who only took office on Jan. 1, discussed Brazil's public assistance and education programs, which helped pull millions out of poverty in recent years.
Humala echoed Rousseff's call to strengthen joint security along their borders in the Amazon to curb drug-trafficking.
By choosing to visit Brazil first as president-elect, Humala is siding closer with Brazil's more moderate leftist government, whose mix of social programs and stable fiscal and monetary policies helped make Brazil an emerging market favorite.
Fears that Humala could follow Chavez's example of strong state control over the economy led to a sell-off in Peruvian assets this week. His opponent in the election tried to paint him as a radical in Chavez's mold despite Humala's vows that he has evolved in recent years into a more pragmatic leader.
On his six-day trip through South America, Humala will travel also to Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile but not to Venezuela.
Humala is scheduled to meet on Friday with Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Lula. Lula was a hard-left labor union leader in the 1980s who evolved after losing three presidential elections and oversaw a booming economy during his 2003-2010 presidency.
Humala cited Lula as an ideal example to follow during the campaign.
The visit also accentuates Brazil's growing influence in Latin America at a time of U.S. economic stagnation. Humala sees Peru as a strategic trade hub on the Pacific Ocean between two mammoth markets: China and Brazil.
Humala has a constructive relationship with U.S. diplomats and meets with them regularly, but he is likely to forge closer ties with Brazil, whose companies have poured billions of dollars into Peru.
Peru's Humala burnishes moderate image in Brazil
Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala praised Brazil on Thursday for fighting poverty while fostering economic growth, seeking to show he will lead as a moderate leftist who has shed his radical past.
Humala, a former army officer, has sought to quickly dispel fears he will govern like Venezuela's fiery President Hugo Chavez, who was once his political mentor and is known for nationalizing private companies and railing against Washington.
By going to Brasilia only days after winning election, Humala has also made it clear he wants stronger ties to Brazil, which is consolidating its role as South America's leader at a time of economic malaise in the United States -- traditionally one of Peru's closest allies.
"Brazil is a successful model that combined economic growth and social mobility," Humala said after meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
Brazil's ruling Workers' Party has combined social programs for the poor with policies that court private investment to turn Brazil into one of the world's top-performing economies.
Peru's stock market .IGRA plunged 12.5 percent on Monday, the day after Humala's victory, its largest one-day loss ever.
But it has since recovered as he pledged to respect private investors, run a balanced budget and keep inflation low. He has promised to safeguard the economy while spreading the wealth from a decade-long boom to the one third of Peruvians still mired in poverty.
Humala has tried since he lost the 2006 race to reinvent himself as a moderate leftist, and this year he hired two former Workers' Party aides from Brazil to help run his campaign. To woo centrist voters, they recast him as a serene family man instead of an unpredictable rabble-rouser.
Their strategy mirrored what the Workers' Party did to soften the image of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won the Brazilian presidency in 2002 as a moderate after failing three times on a hard-left platform.
Humala will meet with Lula on Friday. He will travel to Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile on a six-day trip through South America, but not to Venezuela.
U.S. VERSUS BRAZIL?
Since being elected, Humala has called the United States a "strategic partner" and says the two countries must work closely to combat drug trafficking in the world's top producer of coca, used to make cocaine.
The countries also implemented a bilateral free-trade agreement in 2009 that has spurred commerce.
But Humala also sees a promising future for Peru as a trade hub on the Pacific Ocean between two mammoth, fast-growing markets: China and Brazil.
"One objective of the president-elect is to open the Brazilian market, we're talking about a market of 200 million. This would be as important as the free-trade pact with the United States," said Daniel Abugattas, a legislator from Humala's Nationalist Party.
Though Humala has a constructive relationship with U.S. diplomats and meets with them regularly, he is more likely to forge closer ties with Brazil -- whose firms are pouring billions into Peru to build roads, dams and power plants.
"It's possible that Humala will have cordial but cool relations with the United States, while placing more emphasis on regional integration" led by Brazil, said one South American diplomat who declined to be named.
Humala has said he wants to help strengthen Unasur, a political bloc of South American countries that Brazil spearheaded in 2008 and which explicitly excludes the United States.
One of Brazil's stated foreign policy aims over the past decade has been to shift the global balance of power away from traditional powers to reflect the growing importance of developing countries.
Humala has also voiced interest in joining Mercosur, the South American trade bloc led by Brazil -- though doing so could cause trouble by breaching the terms of Peru's free-trade pact with the United States.
via Agência Reuters
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