Brazil and the Honduras crisis
Brasilia emerges as the voice of the Global South


by Pedro Aguiar
Global Research
2009-09-27



Rio de Janeiro -- It’s been a landmark week for Latin American geopolitics. With Brazil’s decision to host ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya at its embassy in Tegucigalpa until he is restored to power (from which he has been removed since the coup on June 2, the continent has finally shifted its center of gravity from north of the Rio Grande to the core of the south.

The military-civil coup in Honduras was the first in Latin America since the region's redemocratization in the 80s-90s (aside from Fujimori’s proclaimed autogolpe in Peru in 1992), and has received a unanimous condemnation. The continent’s historical tradition of military takeovers has been challenged for the first time ever. After the “leaning leftwardsâ€