O melhor Ministro das Relações Exteriores do Mundo

The world’s best foreign minister

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 12:35pm

 extraído dos comentários do Conversa Afiada de Paulo Henrique Amorim

Este pode ter sido o melhor mês para o Brasil desde Junho de 1494 ("Nunca antes na história desse país":)

This may have been the best month for Brazil since about June 1494. That's when the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed granting Portugal everything in the new world east of an imaginary line that was declared to exist 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands ("ou a partir do Cabo Branco"). This ensured that what was to become Brazil would be Portuguese and thus develop a culture and identity very different from the rest of Spanish Latin America. This guaranteed the world would have samba, churrasco, "The Girl from Ipanema," and through some incredibly fortuitous if twisted chain of events, Gisele Bundchen. 
While it took Brazil sometime to live up to the backhanded maxim that it was "the country of tomorrow and always would be," there is little doubt that tomorrow has arrived for the country even if much work remains to be done to overcome its serious social challenges and tap its extraordinary economic potential.

Nota do Blog: 

Mais uma lavada do Lula "nunca antes na história desse país" no FHC "caipiras e vagabundos". É bom lembrar que Celso Amorim já ocupou esse mesmo cargo antes. E que FHC também foi Ministro das Relações Exteriores no governo de Itamar Franco.

Ah, o Tratado de Tordesilhas garantiu a Portugal a posse das terras depois do arquipélago do Cabo Verde, as quais começam exatamente pelo Cabo Branco, na Paraíba... fui mal aeh

 Restante da matéria no: http://rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/10/07/the_world_s_best_foreign_minister

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