One hundred and thirty-one years ago, our hemisphere formed the International Union of American Republics the oldest regional international organization in the world, and the precursor to the modern-day Organization of American States. On this Pan American Day and Pan American Week, we reaffirm the strength of our regional community, celebrate the democratic principles that unite us, and resolve to work together to overcome the common challenges before us.
So many of the greatest challenges facing us today are not confined to our respective national boundaries. The global COVID-19 crisis has laid bare persistent inequalities in our societies and structural weaknesses in our economies. Climate change poses an urgent national security threat that is hurting communities throughout the region today and jeopardizing future generations. We are witnessing a humanitarian crisis and mass displacement in Venezuela that is among the worst in history. Violence and endemic corruptio
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Germany and South America
A Brazilian View of the Pangermanist Dream of Conquest.
EVEN after two years and six months of war. we find ourselves still but poorly acquainted with the German designs for universal conquest. Her plans for conquest in South America, and her scheme for settlement in that continent at the expense of South American Republics is another evidence of Pangermanism which is the real cause of the war. In a recent article in the Nineteenth Century we have an interesting glimpse of the Brazilian view of the situation.
“The conquest of South America by Germany,^ says the writer, “was certainly a móst qmbitious dream of William the Second. After having annihilated France and Russia, and established German hegemony over Austria-Hungary. the Balkans.. Turkey, Egypt, and Persia; after having seized in the West, Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland, and the North, of France, starting from a line drawn from Pel fort to Calais; and, in the East, the Baltic! Provinces, R