"Egyptians may not know that it took Brazilians no less than 21 years to get rid of a military dictatorship. The unbreakable Dilma in the photo is the 1970s counterpart of the Google generation today fighting for democracy from Cairo to Manama, from Aleppo to eastern Saudi Arabia.
A partial climax was reached this past week, when the new Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (known by its acronym in Spanish, CELAC) met in Caracas. CELAC started as a flaming idea for the emergence - in a new world-system, as Immanuel Wallerstein would have put it - of an integrated Latin American nation, based on justice, sustainable development and equality. Two men were instrumental in the process - Lula and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Their vision convinced everyone from Uruguayan President Pepe Mugica - a former guerrilla leader - to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, a banker.
So now, amid the agonic crisis across the Atlanticist North, Latin America surges with the possibility of a real "third way" (forget the Tony Blair variety)."
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