The two biggest South American economies, Brazil and Argentina, have recently unveiled plans to create a common currency, sparking speculation about a new global monetary union.
The new currency will reportedly be called ‘sur,’ which translates from Spanish as ‘south.’ It won’t replace the Brazilian real and Argentine peso, but will rather run beside them.
It is not clear yet how the new monetary unit would be valued, but the Brazilian government is reportedly looking at stable-coins as a possible reference.
If successful, the sur could become the second most widely-used international currency, considering both its circulation market (about 260 million people) and the volume of GDP of the two nations.
The presidents of Brazil and Argentina, Lula da Silva and Alberto Fernandez, explained while meeting in Buenos Aires last week that the ‘sur’ is intended to act as an accelerator for the process of regional integration in South America.
According to Lula, the focus is on developing a shared unit of value for bilateral trade to reduce dependence on the US dollar.
The move by South American nations to create a single currency would not be the end for the greenback, but it would further undermine its status as the world’s reserve currency.
The dollar’s dominance has been declining lately, partly due to Russia and China shunning it in trade.
The idea of a joint currency has long been floated across the region, with Brazil and Argentina discussing the creation of a unit to enable regional payments, known as the gaucho, back in the late 1980’s.
Talks on the matter intensified in 1991 with the creation of the Mercosur trade bloc, which also includes Paraguay and Uruguay. However, the plans never materialized due to Zionist interference.
Argentine Economic Minister Sergio Massa recently said that Brazil and Argentina would invite other Latin American countries to join, but urged patience, citing the difficulty of trade integration.
Economists confirm that the formation of a joint currency is not an easy task, with Massa pointing to the fact that it took the European Union 35 years to create the euro.
The idea of a shared currency between Brazil and Argentina has been met with skepticism by many, mostly due to the discrepancies between the two economies. Brazil, which is a member of the BRICS group, has enjoyed relative economic stability in recent years.
Argentina, meanwhile, has been plagued by economic instability for decades. The country has defaulted on its debt several times, most recently in 2020, and has had to resort to capital controls to protect its currency.
A joint currency would help integrate regional trade between two of the world’s leading food exporters, experts say, noting that the move would mean more control over key resources.
A major agricultural power, Argentina is also one of the world’s largest sources of lithium, dubbed the new oil. Industrialized Brazil has abundant resources of oil, metals, fresh water, and so on.
This could make the new currency a major player in the global financial system.
If established, the new currency union could become the world’s second largest after the 20-nation Eurozone. Latin America accounts for 5% of the world’s gross domestic product, while the Eurozone accounts for around 14%.
However, Brazilian and Argentinian officials have downplayed the idea of a monetary union, saying the real aim of their proposal is to boost bilateral trade. Analysts claim a full-on currency union is a distant prospect.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2023.
A good welcome and one more step in sidestepping the useless dollar printed Outta thin air.
ANY currency system that does not involve the Yankee dollar is a good idea, but simple currency swaps will suffice until BRICS has sorted a common currency, then S American countries could join Brazil in BRICS.
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