We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America, ... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

Latin America is convinced that, starting with South America, our way forward is to consolidate the process of integration: not theoretical integration - the integration of speeches - but physical integration, with infrastructure, with roads, with railways, with communications, with energy.

Brazil does not want to become an exporter of crude oil. No. We want to be a country that exports oil byproducts - more gasoline, high-quality oil - and to strengthen the petrochemical industry.

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.