BRAZIL X PORTUGUESE AFRICA: RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION, GEOPOLITICS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR THE PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING COMMUNITY

Abstract

For many years, Brazil has played a strategic position in the international scenario, with recognition of its important role as a conflict mediator and political partner for the emergence of new actors with crucial weight in the International Community. With a focus on the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the BRICS, it was possible to raise the country to the level occupied during the last decade, being a direct actor in the geopolitical agenda and participating in decision-making regarding the directions that will be followed in the coming years by the planet. However, with the internal change in management, the country suffered losses in relation to the conduct of its international policy, weakening Brazilian participation in important international bodies, such as the United Nations. The position now occupied, including the President of the Republic not participating in important International Forums, requires new approaches to place Brazil, again, on the international geopolitical scene. One of these strategies is through the approximation of international relations with Portuguese Africa, and in order to strengthen the bond of the Portuguese-speaking community and make effective the right to self-determination of peoples. Each African country, along with its own history, demands different strategies of Brazilian approach so that, in fact, interactions are increased. The present article, therefore, proposes to highlight possible alternatives to increase these relations in contemporaneity according to what appears to be more advantageous and promising to Brazil in relation to Portuguese Africa.