So I’ve just finished watching this documentary about Lula’s presidential victory in Brasil and the current Latin American socialist awakening. It got to me.
Here I am, sat in my living room, between 2 chapters of the many readings I’ve got to do for my uni lectures, and my mind is all over the place.
Lula, peacefully and democratically elected in 2003, has ever since pursued a personal mission to try and ‘change the world’ in his own way. His main goal, in a nutshell, is to give Latin America a chance to be heard and play a role of equal value on the international scene. His various attempts at organising pan-latin american conferences in order to promote socio-econo-political awareness, his active and firm participation in international meetings next to the George W. Bushes of this world, moved me incredibly.
It made me wonder. Why is the achievement of a more socially and economically balanced, fairer world seem to be such an impossible goal to reach?
Why do the governements and leaders of the western world take for granted that they have the power to control the emerging countries the way they do?
Why are politically and economically stable countries like Brasil or Argentina not part of the UN Security Council? Which brings me to then wonder gives the 5 Vetos their right of say on emerging countries?

I am at a lost. I go to university every day, where I have the opportunity to learn about international relations and about the way countries have interacted for the past hundreads of years, and I am still at a lost. I have the incredible luck to be learning about a topic which fascinates me, but what do I do with this precious education? By the end of next year, I will have a BA in my pocket, a lovely little piece of paper which proves I have been educated to the Baccalaureate level. But what do I do with it? So many interests, so many options, so many everything. Ah! the joys of living in a Western country.

After watching this documentary, I felt like writing Lula an email to ask him if I could tag along. Fight with and amongst Latin Americans for a better world, for a wind of change.

Should I? How do you get a president’s email address anyway? Google perhaps?