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With the price of oil hovering near $ 100 a barrel,
the discovery of the biggest deep-water oil field off the
southeastern coast has the potential to transform Brazil into
a global energy powerhouse and to reshape the politics of
this energy-starved continent.
While Brazil’s state oil company, PETROBRAS,
has known of the field for more than a year, it only finished
assessing its full potential in recent months. It announced on
Nov. 8 that the field held some five billion to eight billion
barrels of crude oil and natural gas.
The announcement has everyone in the region, and
beyond, taking notice. A field that size — the biggest in the
world since a discovery in Kazakhstan in 2000 — is a
potential political game-changer for Brazil.
In the next five years it is conceivable that Brazil
could move ahead of Mexico and Canada in total oil
reserves, becoming second only to Venezuela and the United
States in the energy pecking order of the Americas.
This is heady stuff for Brazil, a country that only
last year became a net energy exporter mostly because of its
aggressive push into sugar-cane ethanol and hydroelectric
power.
“All of a sudden Brazil is emerging as an energy
power”, said Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American
Dialogue, a policy group in Washington focusing on Latin
America. “Everything they have developed, from soybeans
to sugar to oil is suddenly working. They have had amazing
luck.”
There is little doubt that the find gives Brazil new
influence against energy players like Bolivia and Venezuela,
and not just in the economic competition among energy
suppliers, but in the political arena as well.
Much to the chagrin of the United States,
Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, has used his nation’s
oil wealth to aggressively push a leftist agenda at home and
abroad. The Brazilian field, known as Tupi, now has the
potential to lend more weight to Brazil’s more moderate,
leftist approach.
Already countries around the region have been
quick to sense the potential threats and benefits. With news
of the discovery coming just ahead of a meeting of Latin
American leaders in Santiago, Chile, Brazil’s president, Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva, acknowledged there during the meeting
that he was being “treated with a certain deference” by the
other leaders.
Mr. Chávez nervously jested that Mr. da Silva was
now an “oil magnate”. He also quickly suggested that the
two nations create an Amazonian energy region similar to the
Caribbean and Andean integration efforts Venezuela had
been pushing for. Internet: www.nytimes.com (adapted). Malestar Como he dicho este primer malestar me vino ya en la
primera etapa del viaje de bodas, en Miami, ciudad
asquerosa pero con muy buenas playas para recién casados,
y se acentuó en Nueva Orleans y en México – DF y aún más
en La Habana, y desde hace casi un año, desde que
regresamos de ese viaje e inauguramos nuestra casa tan
artificiosamente, ha seguido aumentando o se ha instalado en
mí, tal vez en nosotros. Pero el segundo malestar apareció
con fuerza hacia el final del viaje, esto es, sólo en La
Habana, de donde yo procedo en cierto sentido, o más
precisamente en una cuarta parte, pues allí nació y de allí
vino mi abuela materna cuando era niña, la madre de Teresa
y Juana Aguilera. Fue en el hotel en el que durante tres
noches nos alojamos (tampoco teníamos tanto dinero, las
estancias en cada ciudad fueron cortas), una tarde en la que
Luisa se sintió mal mientras paseábamos, tan mal de pronto
que interrumpimos nuestra caminata y volvimos a la
habitación en seguida, para que ella se echara. Tenía
escalofríos y un poco de náusea. No podía mantenerse en
pie, literalmente. Sin duda le sentó mal algo que había
comido, pero entonces no lo sabíamos con la suficiente
certeza, y al instante pensé si no habrá contraído en México
alguna de esas enfermedades que allí atacan tan fácilmente
a los europeos, algo grave como la ameba. Los
presentimientos de desastre que tácitamente me
acompañaron desde la ceremonia de bodas iban adquiriendo
diferentes formas, y una de ellas fue ésta (la menos muda, o
no fue tácita), la amenaza de la enfermedad o la repentina
muerte de quien iba a compartir conmigo la vida y el futuro
concreto y el futuro abstracto, aunque yo tuviera la
impresión de que este último se había acabado y mi vida
estuviera ya mediada; quizá la de los dos, unidos. Javier Marías. Corazón tan blanco, 1992, p. 29 (con adaptaciones).

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Fonte: ANALISTA - ADMINISTRAçãO GERAL/ ADMINISTRAçãO DE MATERIAIS E LICITAçõES / FINEP / 2009 / CESPE_ME