This is part of an article published in the most important news website in Brazil.

My intention here is to demonstrate how things are changing in South America. In part because of United States and European countries are lost their influence here. And in part because Brazil is finally looking to stablish better relationships with neighbours. Not through economic and military threats, but through diplomacy, showing that multilateral actions are those that have more chance of success to avoid unnecessary confrontation and to resolve conflicts.

In case you don’t know what is happening in Bolivia, this country is facing the worst crisis in the last decade, there is the risk of a civil war and South American countries are trying to stop the killings.

The summit of Unasul held on the night of Monday to discuss the crisis in Bolivia marks the growing weight that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is acquiring in the region, this second report published Tuesday by the Spanish newspaper “El Pais”.

On “Lula takes the reins of the Bolivian crisis,” the daily says that Lula made a series of demands to accept to meet in Santiago, Chile, and the fact they have been followed, demonstrate their importance in mediating the conflict.

“The president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet - who holds the temporary presidency of Unasul -, convened the meeting, but was Lula who has transcendence her, to confirm his presence and bring the parties to the conflict in Bolivia and give him their confidence , “Writes the” El Pais “.

“Lula has imposed conditions for travel to Santiago and succeeded. He asked a previous truce between the [Bolivian President Evo] Morales and the opposition, which has been done. Exigiu to express acceptance of La Paz so he intercedesse in crisis, and returned. More , The rival of Morales celebrated the Brazilian mediation, although the Lula Tuesday reprimanded for using violence to challenge the government. ”

According to the newspaper, the summit has become clear that opens the distance between the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, “which has become actor in the conflict to expel from the country in solidarity with Morales, the ambassador of the United States, and who came to Santiago with an anti-speech, “and Lula, whose country” needs Bolivian gas and that in the days turned into bearer of non-intervention in internal affairs of the country. ”

The meeting only became possible with the presence of Lula, who before accepting participate would have required the presence of Morales and that he accepted the results, says the newspaper, for whom “the Brazil does not want external interference in the conflict, not insults to the U.S. “.

“Without the U.S. presence in Unasul one of the reasons that explains the existence of this forum - the United States, greater economic potential of South America, is beginning to engage in this crisis a more important role. Apart from energy ties, and be the biggest commercial partner of Bolivia, Brazil shares a border of 3,400 km with the Andean country, whose strategic importance, despite the lack of coastline, was soon perceived by Che Guevara in the 60’s. ”

The “El Pais” concludes that before leaving for the summit, Lula seems to have sent a message to Venezuela and Washington, when he said that a solution to the crisis requires the consolidation of the democratic process and respect the Constitution.