Brazil going nuclear.(planning of a uranium plant)

"While the world community scrutinizes Iran's nuclear plans, Latin America's biggest country is weeks away from taking a controversial step and firing up the region's first major uranium enrichment plant," reported a February 10 Knight Ridder dispatch from Rio. This isn't the first time Brasilia has pursued nuclear weapons technology: in the early 1990s, Brazil's military ran a secret program to develop a nuclear weapon. Brazil is ready to open a nuclear power plant at Resende that will produce enriched uranium, "which can be used to generate nuclear energy and, when highly enriched, to make nuclear weapons."

The South American giant, which has the resources and population base to be a superpower, has the world's sixth largest uranium reserves. Under the administration of Marxist Luis Ignacio "Lula" de Silva, Brazil has become a very close ally of other regional Marxist regimes, such as that of Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez, and has entered into a wide-ranging commercial and strategic relationship with Communist China.

"The road to Resende did hit a few bumps in 2004 when Brazil refused to let [International Atomic Energy Administration, or IAEA] inspectors view centrifuges used in the enrichment process, saying they had to protect ...