UNASUR or UNASUL (depending on whether one speaks Spanish or Portuguese) was established by the twelve presidents in Brasília in May 2008 with the aim of furthering economic and political integration. Instead, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez hijacked the Quito meeting to propagate his Bolivarian Revolution and expound his own ideas for the continent’s future as independent of the United States.
里约热内卢&#45;&#45;上个月，南美全部十二个国家的领导人（除了一位）会聚厄瓜多尔首都基多举行“南美国家联盟”（UNASUR）峰会。UNASUR 或 UNASUL（缩写视西班牙语或葡萄牙语而定）是（南美）十二国总统于2008年五月在巴西利亚建立的，其宗旨是促进经济和政治一体化。然而，委内瑞拉总统查韦斯却劫持了基多会议来宣扬其玻利维尔革命，并详细解释了他自己关于该大陆独立于美国的未来的理念。