Brazil and the non-indifference to Haitian crisis: solidarity or the rhetoric of discourse?

Abstract

After the fall of Berlin wall, Brazil has centered efforts to develop a policy of prestige to interpose the neoliberal from the North. Notwithstanding, the country has sought established itself as a leader in its region, and also has placed in its external agenda an approximation to Arabian countries, as well as with Latin-American and African ones, underpinned on dialogue and cooperation. Moreover, has pleaded incisively for the reform on the ONU Security Council, arguing that this space should correspond to a new order which implies a more active participation of developing countries, not exempting itself to eliminate the imbalances between the industrialized and the developing countries. This way, Brazil projects itself as a moderator on the north-south relations, seeking to affirm the sovereignty of the nations. In April 2004, accepted the mission to lead the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), an opportunity that allowed the country to apply its pacific and mediation policy. On this sense, adopting the MINUSTAH as a study case, the present article has as its objective to analyze if the Brazilian performance, face this peace operation, correspond with its non-interfering speech, and then, bring questions that might course through this performance.