The region must unite to avoid falling into the colonial logic, shared by both the U.S. and China, which positions it as a mere supplier of raw materials.

In an increasingly polarized world, which for many resembles a Cold War, with two ongoing conflicts with no end in sight, Brazil has made efforts to depolarize while opening a space for politics and dialogue.

The BRICS has been one of the central platforms of the Lula government, through which it seeks to advance the idea of greater participation and representation of the Global South countries in the international process.

The recent operation in the favela of Jacarezinho, in Rio de Janeiro, is an emblematic example of the brutality of the security forces. It is through the "war on drugs" that the state continues to delimit which is the "cheapest meat on the market".

The invasion of the Capitol, incited by former President Donald Trump himself from the farce of electoral fraud, has been described as the greatest attack on democracy in the United States. The event, supposedly exceptional in the history of the country, was compared to something routine in the Latin American scenario.