Brazil May Close Down Embassies in Africa and the Caribbean

[MisterP]

1. Brazil's had a long diplomatic relationship with Africa

it's not just to work to reverse the legacy of slavery (Portugal got its enslaved people direct from Kongo/Angola) but to work on common South Atlantic interests (since Brazilian geopolitics revolves around oceans as well as continents) and to bring these countries into its orbit

Brazil even proposed a South Atlantic Treaty Organization (but it saw Argentina as a bigger threat than any Soviet ships and wanted Britain in which Argentina refused and Reagan wanted South Africa in which Britain would've refused had it been in and he and Britain wanted Chile in which would've upset Argentina but balanced the table for Brazil)