If Brazil cannot effectively lead Latin America, no one can

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Walter Russel Mead, one of the leading interpreters of United States foreign policy, claims that, since the end of the CoId War, the USA have been much less apprehensive about Latin American security. There is far less US security concern about Latin America, so the US is much less pressed to influence political developments in Latin America except for very specific issues, such as d rug trafficking and terrorist connections, In this context, according to Mead, Brazil has a crucial role to play: Brazil can serve as a center for development and political stability in Latin America,"lf Brazil cannot effectively lead Latin America, no one can; he stresses.