Op-ed Article by Ambassador Rubens Barbosa in <i>O Estado de S.Paulo</i>
Former Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Rubens Barbosa comments on Mercosul and predicts possible future directions for the bloc. Original in Portuguese and translated into English
Rubens Barbosa discusses conclusions from a recent seminar on Mercosul at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. He mentions the decreasing economic importance of Mercosul for its members, the lack of political will from members states to confront Mercosul's institutional deficit, Mercosul's increasingly political nature, and Brazil's inability to deal effectively with the challenges presented by Venzuela to its aspirations of regional leadership.
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