The creation of an alliance based on the energy is outlined like one of the main objectives of the I Summit of the South American Community of Nations that is celebrated today in Brasilia. This first appointment in the Brazilian capital attends the Chiefs of State of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. For different reasons, the only absentees are the presidents of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe; Guayana, Bharrat Jagdeo; Surinam, Ronald Venetiaan, and Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez, that is represented by their Secretaries of State or vice-presidents. While the chancellors discussed the documents that today will have to approve the presidents, the energy was the fundamental subject in the previous day to the Summit and was in mouth of almost all the Chiefs of State. The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, first in arriving at Brasilia, were also first in putting emphasis in power integration, cradle in the enormous wealth of the region, that hoards the greater hydrocarbon reserves than they exist in the West. "Venezuela can to guarantee to all Suramérica energy and gas to him during next the 200 years", affirmed Chávez, that proposed that the hydrocarbons become the motor of the new integration that sets out the South American Community. In company of the Brazilian host, Luiz Inácio Lula gives Silva, Chávez attended an act in which five agreements between state Petroleums of Venezuela (PDVSA) and Petrobras were signed. Most ambitious of those projects it anticipates the construction of a refinery in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco to process crude the heavy ones of the strip of the Orinoco, in the south of Venezuela, that will be operated altogether by both companies. According to Chávez, that refinery, that will be able to process 200,000 barrels per day and will demand joint investments by about 2,500 million dollars, is an example of the "new integration that watches towards the South". The Venezuelan agent chief executive said that "Venezuela has in the United States eight refineries, has others in Germany or England, that give few gains to the country, but many uses to those other nations". Initiatives like this one, in opinion of Chávez, will mark the way of a new integrating model that it will have as one of his goals to give to use and development to the countries of the south, instead of dárselos to the rich ones of the north. According to the Venezuelan minister of Energy said to EFE and president of PDVSA, Rafael Ramirez, today will announce an agreement with Repsol whereas last night an agreement with Argentina by about 100 million dollars subscribed directed, among other things, to fortify "power integration". On that subject also the Peruvian president spoke, Alexander Toledo, who considered that the regional power strategy must aim at a gradual substitution of petroleum like power plant. Toledo said that its proposal, already discussed with Argentina and Brazil, is based on "giving added value to the gas, energy production mainly, to free us from the petroleum, that has reached 70 dollars the barrel and until it can put itself more expensive". According to the Peruvian president, "it is necessary to intensify the use of the gas in all Suramérica", so that we prepare ourselves to confront "the increase and a possible future petroleum shortage". But as well as the energy seems to be the center of encounter of the new regional block, the mold within as it will have to materialize this initiative wakes up the first controversies. The Brazilian chancellor, Celso Amorim, affirmed that the South American Community is not excluding of other processes of integration nor of "the deepening of mechanisms in march", like the Mercosur or the Andean Community, that will have to continue advancing and to serve as base for the consolidation of this new regional block. Nevertheless, Chávez has another opinion with respect to the future of the South American Community. The Brazilian chancellor, Celso Amorim, affirmed that the South American Community is not excluding of other processes of integration nor of the deepening of mechanisms in march, like the Mercosur or the Andean Community, that will have to continue advancing and to serve as base for the consolidation of this new regional block. Nevertheless, Chávez has another opinion with respect to the future of the South American Community. According to the bolivariano leader, the South American Community will be another failure if it is based on the models of the Andean Community and the Mercosur, because it will follow the scheme neoliberal of integration. In its opinion, a model of endogenous integration is due to create that is "to the service of poorest and allows to break the logic of the operation and the logic of the dependency".
